Stark Mad

Stark Mad
theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Written by	Francis Powers (titles, silent version; uncredited)
Screenplay by	Harvey Gates
Story by	Jerome Kingston
Starring	H. B. Warner
Cinematography	Barney McGill
Edited by	Ralph Dawson
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	February 2, 1929
Running time	70 minutes; 7 reels (sound version)
Country	US
Language	English

Stark Mad is 1929 American Pre-Code film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. It starred silent screen greats H. B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan and Henry B. Walthall.

Plot

James Rutherford has organized an expedition to the jungles of Central America to find his missing son, Bob, and his guide, Simpson. Professor Dangerfield intercepts the party, bringing with him Simpson, whose jungle experience has made him a raving maniac. They go ashore and decide to spend a night at a Mayan temple. After Irene, Bob's fiancée, disappears, they come across a gigantic ape chained to the floor, and Captain Rhodes, commander of the yacht, is abducted by a strange monster with great hairy talons. Messages are found warning the party to leave. Sewald, an explorer, is mysteriously killed by an arrow. Simpson's reason returns, and he saves the party, revealing that the demented hermit, whom he has just killed, and who formerly occupied the ruins, murdered Bob two months before.

Cast

H. B. Warner as Professor Dangerfield
Louise Fazenda as Mrs. Fleming
Jacqueline Logan as Irene
Henry B. Walthall as Captain Rhodes
Claude Gillingwater as James Rutherford
John Miljan as Dr. Milo
Andre Beranger as Simpson, a guide
Warner Richmond as First mate
Lionel Belmore as Amos Sewald

Preservation status

The film was released in a silent version for theaters not converted to sound.^[1] Both sound and silent versions are lost.^[2]^[3]

In February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-December 1949 films, including Stark Mad, to Associated Artists Productions (AAP). It is unknown, the film was copied onto 16mm, but it did not show on television, the film is still kept in the television syndication package. In 1969, UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside the United States.

References

External links

Films directed by Lloyd Bacon

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 20, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.