Oscar Eagle on AllMovie

An early director for the pioneering Selig Polyscope Company, Ohio-born Oscar Eagle came from the Broadway stage where he had helmed such popular plays as An Ideal Husband and The Little Blue Devil. In films from around 1912, Eagle went on to direct a series of one-reel action-adventures starring a handsome horse named Arabia. That was in 1913 and the following year, Eagle was handed his perhaps best-remembered assignment, the 15-chapter serial Runaway June, starring Norma Phillips in the title role, a foolish bride who gets into all sorts of dangerous situations when she leaves her staid husband (J.W. Johnston). This rather ordinary serial was given a huge advertising buildup by the Reliance company, who instituted a contest among theatergoers, 50 of whom won a trip to the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Like so many of his peers, Eagle's screen career waned along with the popularity of short films in the mid-1910s.