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The Flashlight

0.0 50 mins Mystery   1917
Bluebird Photoplays  
Director(s): Ida May Park

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.

Casts of The Flashlight

Dorothy Phillips

as Delice Brixton

William Stowell

as Jack Lane

Lon Chaney

as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton

Alfred Allen

as John Peterson

George Berrell

as Barclay (as George Burrell)

Evelyn Selbie

as Mrs. Barclay

Clyde Benson

as Deputy

Orin Jackson

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

Mark Fenton

as Judge

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