The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled
About The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled
Newsboy Swipesy is shooting craps with messenger boy Swifty when two men start following a young woman. Swipesy shadows them. They send a fake note saying a friend has been hurt and a carriage is coming. Swipesy warns the girl, puts on one of her dresses, and rides in her place. On a lonely road he holds the two men with a revolver until the police arrive. The gun is a cigarette case.
Cast & crew
More about The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled
Wallace McCutcheon directed it for American Mutoscope and Biograph. Robert Harron plays Swifty. Edward Dillon plays one of the villains. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it on 11 March 1908. It runs 5 minutes.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the sidewalk, the saloon, and the stop on the road.
Preservation
AFI lists the film as extant.
Notes
- The Moving Picture World of 14 March 1908 printed the synopsis.
- The film has no intertitles. The story is told in the action.
- AFI lists it as extant.
- Swipesy wins the trick revolver off Swifty in the sidewalk craps game.
Scenes
- Swipesy reads the fake hospital note.
- He climbs into the carriage in the girl's clothes.
- He snaps the revolver open and it is a cigarette case.
