
The Flashlight (1917)
0h 50m | PG-13
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.
Director: Ida May Park
Studio: Bluebird Photoplays
Genre: Mystery
Video: 720p
Cast

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