Burglar by Proxy

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Channel: Eye Filmmuseum · 2018 · Film & Animation

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This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form.   

 Director: John Francis Dillon | Production Country: Netherlands | Year: 1919 | Production Company: Jack Pickford Productions (United States) | FLM9639 | Film from the collection of Eye (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/en 

 A romantic crime comedy about a young man who is falsely accused of theft by the real culprit, who is the boyfriend of the girl he fancies. By chance, he meets a real burglar who helps him to get to the truth by blowing up a safe.

Cast: Jack Pickford, Gloria Hope, John Francis Dillon, Robert Walker (1918-1951), Tom Guise.


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