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The Flashlight
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.
Key Crew
Director: Ida May Park
Director of Photography: King D. Gray
Story: Albert Treynor
Writer: Ida May Park
Top 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)
