Collection
The Scarlet Runner
A series of 12 2-reel episodes, each a separate and unrelated story, relating the adventures of Christopher Race and his high-powered automobile, The Scarlet Runner.
Timeline
- 1The Car and His Majesty10/2/1916 0.0
Christopher Race, forced by his uncle to earn his own living for a change, buys Scarlet Runner, an exceptionally fine automobile. He at first tries hiring it out to private parties, but meets with no success.
- 2The Nuremberg Watch10/9/191620m 0.0
Christopher's distinguished cousin, Sir Gordon Race, is defending Lady Mendel, on trial for the murder of her husband. On the morning of the last day of the trial, a veiled woman visits Christopher and gives him a package, saying it contains a gift for Sir Gordon which will bring him luck. Second episode of The Scarlet Runner serial which is lost in its entirety.
- 3The Masked Ball10/16/1916 0.0
Christopher Race is engaged to take in his Scarlet Runner Ponsonby Fitzgerald, an eccentric novelist, and a party of friends to a ball. The affair as planned by Fitzgerald is to end in a great joke, whereby his party will be awarded the prize for the most sensational entrance to the ball.