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The Pool of Flame
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Otis Turner

Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan [Terence O’Rourke], Lois Wilson [Princess Beatrix], Harry Carter [Duke Victor], Maud George (Maude George) [Princess Karan], Bertram Grassby [Chambret], H.L. Holland [Danny], Frank MacQuarrie [Des Trebes], Earl Rogers [Captain Fritz Noelke]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Red Feather Photoplays]. / Scenario by F. McGrew Willis, from the novel The Pool of Flame by Louis Joseph Vance. Technical direction by John Coakley. / © 14 February 1916 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP7628]. Released 21 August 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The final film in the “Terence O’Rourke” series by Universal.

Drama: Adventure.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 December 2012.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 288; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23 : Website-AFI.