Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery

Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery
Film poster
Directed byFrancis Ford
Written byGrace Cunard
Francis Ford
StarringGrace Cunard
Francis Ford
Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Co.
Release date
  • April 14, 1914 (1914-04-14)
Running time
15 episodes (300 minutes) (20 Minutes per Episode)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles
Budget$30,000[1]
Box office$1.5 million[1]

Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery is a 1914 American action film serial directed by Francis Ford. It was the first serial by Universal. It was originally intended to be a short subject. The serial is now considered to be lost with only four episodes surviving.[2] Prints and/or fragments were found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978.[3] The head of the Universal City Zoo, animal trainer Doc Kirby, was mauled by a lion during production and died shortly thereafter from a septic infection of the wound.[4]

  1. ^ a b Wood, Thomas (December 22, 1946). "The Sad State of the Serial". The New York Times. p. 51.
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery". Silent Era. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  3. ^ "Lucille Love, The Girl of Mystery, or: Lost in the Yukon". Classic Film Aficionados. September 18, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
  4. ^ "The Spokesman-Review 03 May 1914, page 32". Newspapers.com. Retrieved December 31, 2022.