Eleanor's Catch

Name: Eleanor's Catch
Director: Cleo Madison
Genre: Mystery
Released: 1916
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Cleo Madison, Lule Warrenton, Edward Hearn, William V. Mong, Margaret Whistler

1916 Mystery 15 minutes Directed by Cleo Madison

About Eleanor's Catch

Eleanor and her mother, Mrs. McGrady, take in washing. Flash Dacy, a tenement dandy, courts Eleanor with a roll of money and new clothes, and she drops Spike, a plumber who studies at night school. Flash is a pickpocket who means to make her his partner. He brings a wealthy farmer to the rooms and tells her to help fleece him. Spike finds her fighting Flash, pulls her out, and the sister Eleanor had lost comes home with him.

Cast & crew

More about Eleanor's Catch

Cleo Madison directed and plays Eleanor. William V. Mong wrote the story and is in the cast. The short runs 15 minutes.

Themes

A washerwoman's daughter
A dandy with a roll of bills
A fleece that turns into a fight
A night-school plumber
Cleo Madison
laundry
pickpocket
Flash Dacy
Spike

Notes

Lule Warrenton, Edward Hearn, and Margaret Whistler are billed with Madison and Mong.
A period synopsis calls the finish a restoration of the lost sister and a home Spike can pay for.

Scenes

Flash brings a farmer to the rooms and orders Eleanor to help rob him.

Also available

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