The Lightning Raider is a 1919 American action film serial directed by George B. Seitz. It was the on-screen debut of Boris Karloff, albeit as an extra. The film serial survives in an incomplete state with some reels preserved at the Library of Congress Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City collection and other film archives, but it is not available on home video. The serial was shown in France as Par Amour.
Plot A beautiful young woman is in reality a daring master thief. While fleeing the scene of her latest robbery, she meets a handsome young millionaire named Thomas Babbington North. The film belongs to the sensationalistic "Yellow Menace" genre of its time, with Warner Oland playing the insidious Oriental Wu Fang.
Cast
Pearl White as The Lightning Raider Warner Oland as Wu Fang Henry G. Sell as Thomas Babbington North Ruby Hoffman as Lottie William P. Burt as The Wasp (credited as William Burt) Frank Redman as Hop Sing Nellie Burt as Sunbeam Sam Kim Henrietta Simpson Boris Karloff as an extra Billy Sullivan (credited as William A. Sullivan) Anita Brown
Episodes The Ebony Block The Counterplot Underworld Terrors Through Doors of Steel The Brass Key The Mystic Box Meshes of Evil Cave of Dread Falsely Accused The Baited Trap The Bars of Death Hurled Into Space The White Roses Cleared of Guilt Wu Fang Atones
See also List of film serials List of film serials by studio Boris Karloff filmography
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