Perils of the Secret Service

Directors: Hal Mohr (director), George Bronson-Howard (director), Jack Wells (director)

Cast: Kingsley Benedict as Yorke Norroy

Released 1917

A silent "film" lasting 90 minutes. It was actually 9 different adventures, each a 10-minute episode, all written by George Bronson-Howard. Overall direction of the project was under the eye of Hal Mohr but the direction of  the individual episodes was done by Bronson-Howard for the first 7 and Jack Wells for the last 2. The producer for the project was Kingsley Benedict who would also play the part of Yorke Norroy. The episodes were:
The Last Cigarette - The heads of Saxonia's Secret Service plot against Yorke Norroy after he causes one of their key agents to fail in his mission. Ironically, their method of dispatch will be used by Norroy to escape being killed!
The Clash of Steel - A Princess Seraphina flees her horrible marriage taking her son, Paul with her. Count Stefan, an agent for Saxonia, uses this as a way to cause trouble benefitting Saxonia. Yorke Norroy must find a way to stop him and save Seraphina and Paul for a vengeful husband.
The Dreaded Tube - An anarchist named Xabra is due to be executed for a bombing that killed four people. The terrorist organization The Red Brotherhood is threatening to unleash the bubonic plague in New York City if Xabra is killed. Yorke Norroy must stop them.
The Crimson Blade - An arms dealer named Herman Von Ladenburg is providing guns and such to Filipino rebels and it is the job of Yorke Norroy, aided by fellow agent Carson Huntley, to stop him. The action takes place largely in Neropa, Turkey.
The Man in the Trunk - Cissy Reginald seeks the held of Yorke Norroy to help find her sweetheart, Carson Huntley. He, they will find out, is being held by a Mexican named Diego Rey who is torturing him to get details about a new noiseless machinegun.
The Signet Ring - Peyton Car is a young naval officer as well as the inventor of a new style of submarine. When he commits suicide in despair of unrequited love for Alida Astaire, she in turn steals his plans and sells them to Saxonian agents. It falls to Yorke Norroy to convince those operatives that she was being false with them.
The International Spy - Guy Sterner is a not very honorable man who has married a Senator Bohun's daughter in order to get into government himself. He then uses the opportunity to leak classified documents to an international spy named Ehricke. It is Yorke Norroy's job to stop the activity.
The Master Spy - Yorke Norroy and Carson Huntley are on a dangerous mission to recover stolen fort defense plans. This will involve working with a British agent named John Gaunt who is worried about not surviving the assignment.
The Mysterious Iron Ring - When Yorke Norroy gets involved in a case of stolen defense plans, he finds he has to deal with a powerful criminal known only with the initials H.I.J. as well as a beautiful and dangerous woman named Countess Irma Hardenbergh who is very friendly with a US Senator.
These were all silent films.