The Secret of the Submarine is a 1915

1915 in film

The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...

 adventure

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 film serial directed by George L. Sargent. All of the chapters of the film are considered to be lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Plot

The heroes must keep the titular submarine from falling into the hands of the Russians or Japanese.

Cast

• Juanita Hansen
  Juanita Hansen
  Juanita C. Hansen was an American silent film actress. Beginning as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, she appeared in a variety of serials through the late 1910s. She was well known for her troubled personal life and struggle with addiction to cocaine and morphine. In 1934 she became clean and...
  
   - Cleo Burke. This was Juanita Hansen's serial debut.
• Tom Chatterton
  Tom Chatterton
  Tom Chatterton was an American actor.Born in Geneva, New York, Chatterton began his film career in 1913 at the New York Motion Picture Company under director Thomas H. Ince. Although never a major star, Chatterton had several leading roles in early silent films...
  
   - Lt. Jarvis Hope
• Hylda Hollis - Olga Ivanoff
• Lamar Johnstone
  Lamar Johnstone
  Lamar Johnstone was an American silent film actor and director.Born in Fairfax, Virginia, he starred in 82 films as an actor between 1911 and his death in 1919...
  
   - Gerald Morton
• George Clancey - Hook Barnacle
• William Tedmarsh
  William Tedmarsh
  William Tedmarsh was an English-American early silent film actor.Born in London Tedmarsh moved to New York as a young boy and began stage acting...
  
   - Tatsuma
• Harry Edmondson - Sextus
• George Webb - Mahlin
• Hugh Bennett - Dr. Ralph Burke
• Joseph Beaudry - Calvin Montgomery
• Perry Banks
  Perry Banks
  Perry Banks was a Canadian silent film actor of the early period.He starred with William Garwood in films such as Sir Galahad of Twilight.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Leona Hutton
  Leona Hutton
  Leona Hutton was an American actress. During her brief career, between 1913 and 1916, she appeared in 48 silent era motion pictures.- Biography :...
  
  
• George Gebhardt
  George Gebhardt
  George Gebhardt was a Swiss-born American silent film actor. He appeared in 128 films between 1908 and 1922. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and died in Edensdale, New York from tuberculosis.-Selected filmography:...
  
  

Production

Secret of the submarine was written in the lead up to the United States' involvement in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 by war correspondent Richard Barry.

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