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The Flashlight

05/21/1917

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0hr 50min

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Mystery

STORY

Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture. Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption. When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin, Lane goes to sleep out of doors, with the camera set up near by. In the middle of the night, he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots. Trekking back to his own cabin the next day, he develops the picture, which is of a girl holding a rifle. He returns to the recluse's cabin where he is arrested for murder.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Dorothy Phillips
  • William Stowell
  • Lon Chaney
  • Alfred Allen
  • George Berrell

    Director

  • Ida May Park

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Bluebird Photoplays

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Dorothy Phillips

    Delice Brixton

    William Stowell

    Jack Lane

    Lon Chaney

    Henry Norton / Porter Brixton

    Alfred Allen

    John Peterson

    George Berrell

    Barclay (as George Burrell)

    Evelyn Selbie

    Mrs. Barclay

    Clyde Benson

    Deputy

    Orin Jackson

    Howard, Jack Lane's servant (as O.C. Jackson)

    Mark Fenton

    Judge