Haunted Island

This article is about the 1928 film. For other uses, see The Haunted Island.

Haunted Island
Directed byRobert F. Hill
Written byFrank R. Adams
StarringJack Dougherty
Helen Foster
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 26, 1928 (1928-03-26)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Haunted Island is a 1928 American silent action film serial directed by Robert F. Hill. The serial was released in 10 chapters of two reels each,[1] with the first episode ("A Night of Fear") released on March 26, 1928.[2] Each episode featured a lurid title, such as "The Phantom Rider," "The Haunted Room," "The Fires of Fury," or "Buried Alive."[3] The serial was a remake of the 1918 Universal serial The Brass Bullet, which was based on the story "Pleasure Island."[2] As of October 2009, Haunted Island is considered a lost film.[4] A trailer survives in the Library of Congress collection.[5]

  1. ^ Rainey, Buck. Sweethearts of the Sage: Biographies and Filmographies of 258 Actresses Appearing in Western Movies. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992. ISBN 0-89950-565-1
  2. ^ a b Lahue, Kalton C. Continued Next Week: A History of the Moving Picture Serial. Stillwater, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964; Langman, Larry. Return to Paradise: A Guide to South Sea Island Films. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8108-3268-2
  3. ^ Braff, Richard E. The Universal Silents: A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999. ISBN 0-7864-0287-3
  4. ^ "The Lost Serial Collection DVD Set." The Serial Squadron. No date. Archived April 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Accessed October 15, 2009.
  5. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress (<-book title) [trailer only] p.76 c.1978 American Film Institute