Fearless Harry

In the first of eleven screen comedies based on C.W. Kahles' comic strip, Earl McCarthy is Hairbreadth Harry, forever tasked with rescuing Beautiful Belinda (Charlotte Merriam) from peril. She's introduced as being "so warm-hearted she had to wear asbestos lingerie," and proves it by kicking up a flapper storm in the middle of a public park. This revelry is short-lived however, as the lady is soon held hostage for her father's "secret formula" by Relentless Rudolph (John J. Richardson) and his henchmen in a hideout tricked out with haunted-house trap doors and other frights, even a mummy. - Dennis Harvey