The Hand of Peril

1916 film by Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur

Arthur Stringer (novel)
Maurice Tourneur

Produced byMaurice TourneurStarring

House Peters
June Elvidge
Ralph Delmore

Edited byClarence Brown

Production
company

Paragon Films

Distributed byWorld Film

Release date

March 27, 1916 (1916-03-27)

Running time

66 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguages

Silent
English intertitles

The Hand of Peril is a 1916 American silent crime film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring House Peters, June Elvidge and Ralph Delmore.^[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Ben Carré.

Cast

House Peters as James Kestner
June Elvidge as Maura Lambert
Ralph Delmore as Frank Lambert
Doris Sawyer as 'Bull's Eye' Cherry
Roy Pilcher as Tony Morello

Production

On January 23, 1916, Tourneur was given the scenario for a film based on Arthur Stringer's 1915 novel The Hand of Peril.^[2]

As the film required showing action in multiple rooms at the same time, a three-story house with nine rooms was constructed on the Paragon Studios lot in Fort Lee, New Jersey.^[3] An abandoned pier in South Brooklyn was completely reconstructed for use in the film.^[2]

Reception

In a review published in Billboard, the cast were praised for their "capable" acting and the film was praised for the "high quality" of photography and direction.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "The Hand of Peril". Billboard. April 1, 1916. p. 60. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Directors Figure in Coincidencee". The Moving Picture World. 28 (2): 269. April 8, 1916.
^ "Paragon Studio is Wonder-Place of Convenience". Motion Picture News. 13 (11): 1571. March 18, 1916.