05 Jan 1933
File 113
A Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail. Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
The Flashlight
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.
Top Billed 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
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