PIED PIPER MALONE Goes Back Home
The Georgetown [South Carolina] Times has an interesting article about the finding of the 1924 sea adventure film Pied Piper Malone, which was filmed locally (though set in New England) in the early 1920s. Theater historians John Coles and Mark Tiedje have recently located the film in the archives of Gosfilmofond in Moscow. A computerized transfer has been requested by the Georgetown Historical Society.
Adapted from a story by Booth Tarkington, Pied Piper Malone is the tale of a man who proves his worth (and wins the girl) by safely bringing to shore a ship that had been lost after a storm. Directed by Alfred E. Green, the picture stars Thomas Meighan (Male and Female, Why Change Your Wife?), a
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