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The Hieroglyphic

May 4, 1912

0h 12m

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Overview

Peter Barton leaves his wealth to his niece, Mary, disinheriting his dissipated son, Edgar, who steals the will. Jack Smart, a rascal, an associate of Edgar's, keeps close watch upon him. At the point of a revolver he compels Edgar to surrender the will to him. Mary, the niece, is obliged to go to work, takes a position as a reporter, and meets Tom Swayne, who falls in love with her. Tom sees Jack Smart in a restaurant, and after the villain leaves, Tom picks up a menu card, upon which Smart has written some hieroglyphics. Mary shows him an envelope which she picked up in her uncle's room, where Smart took the will from Edgar, after he had stolen it. Tom compares it and the hieroglyphics on it with those on the menu card. They are the same.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

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Cast

Tom Swayne

Tom Powers

Mary

Zena Keefe

Edgar Barton

Harry Northrup

Wallace Reid

Jack Smart

Edwin R. Phillips

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