The Flashlight
movie
Released May 21, 1917
Genres:
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.
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
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Clyde Benson
as
Deputy
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Orin Jackson
as
Howard, Jack Lane's servant (as O.C. Jackson)
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Mark Fenton
as
Judge
