The Flashlight (1917) — mystery film. Directed by Ida May Park. Starring Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Lon Chaney, Alfred Allen. This page maps 4 characters and 6 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A photographer is falsely accused of murder and must clear his name with the help of a mysterious girl and a surprising witness.
Mystery · 50 min · 1917
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.
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