The Flashlight
21/05/1917
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.
Movie Information
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
