The Flashlight
The Flashlight

The Flashlight

1917-05-21| 50 min

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

Cast

Dorothy Phillips

Dorothy Phillips

William Stowell

William Stowell

Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney

Alfred Allen

Alfred Allen

George Berrell

George Berrell

Share on social media

More Like This

After the Fog
At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
The Circular Staircase
Love Without Question
Greater Than Love
Adultery Trap Mature
A Scarlet Week-End
The Book of Murder
A Chant of Silence
Murder and the Computer
The Missing Rembrandt
It Is the Law
Armchair Detective: Mystery at Malibu
Please Stand by for Murder
London After Midnight
A Blind Bargain
Blake of Scotland Yard
Acquitted
The Social Code
File 113