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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Jack’s Burglar
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Robert Goodman?
Cast: Richard Stanton [Jack], Evelyn Selbie [Jack’s mother], [?] Francis Ford?
Méliès Star-Film [American] production, distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 26 December 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [From Méliès promotional materials] His father and mother avisiting, Jack is left in charge of the ranch. A beautiful girl arrives, a friend of his aunt’s, desiring to stay a few days. Jack, love smitten, knows she will not remain if she discovers the circumstances, so he presses the foreman and the cook into service to impersonate his parents. All would have gone swimmingly had she not accidentally discovered Jack’s trick and decided to turn the tables. She ingeniously relives him of his cash, and when the real mother arrives, there is a truly comical situation in which love triumphs.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 October 2022.
References: Thompson-Star p. 232 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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