A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	In foreground, Mabel Normand (left), Ford Sterling, Fred Mace and Mack Sennett. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Fred Mace [Myred Face, sleuth], Mack Sennett [Sack Mennet, sleuth], Ford Sterling [Police Chief Larkin], Mabel Normand [Mrs. Smith], Alice Davenport

The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / No copyright registration. Released 4 November 1912; in a split-reel with Mabel’s Lovers (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [From Keystone promotional materials] This picture revives the travesty on Sherlock Holmes, in which Mack Sennett and Fred Mace won unbounded popularity. A woman receives an anonymous letter advising her that her husband is flirting, and engages the detectives. They track the wrong man and spy on him, arresting him in his own home while making love to his own wife. It develops that the man is a police captain, and the “sleuths” are punished for their error.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Jealousy - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives, Policemen (Arrests)

Listing updated: 8 September 2018.

References: Fussell-Normand p. 248; Lahue-Kops pp. 35, 136; Sherk-Sennett p. 6; Spehr-American p. 444 : Website-IMDb.