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The Flashlight

May 21, 1917

0h 50m

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Overview

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.

Genres

Mystery

Production Companies

Bluebird Photoplays

The Flashlight Trailers

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Cast

Delice Brixton

Dorothy Phillips

Jack Lane

William Stowell

Henry Norton / Porter Brixton

Lon Chaney

John Peterson

Alfred Allen

Barclay (as George Burrell)

George Berrell

Mrs. Barclay

Evelyn Selbie

Deputy

Clyde Benson

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

Orin Jackson

Judge

Mark Fenton

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