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The Housebreakers : [incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

180229

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1914

Item number (ISN):

180229

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Accession:

1979-0191

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Housebreakers

Production date:

1914

Release date:

1914-12-13

Production company:

Komic Film Company

Production credit:

director, Edward Dillon

Cast credit:

Tod Browning, Fay Tincher, Edward Dillon, Max Davidson, Sylvia Ashton, Ed Rice

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

Mutual Film Corporation

Description:

Bunko Bill takes a job as a gardener to set up a robbery. He selects the home of the police commissioner, whose daughter loves Harris, a young man she has refused to marry until he has caught a burglar redhanded. Harris gets the supposed gardener into a scheme to burglarize the house and be caught by Harris. He would pretend to hand him over to the authorities, but in reality arrange for his escape. Bunko Bill steals the silverware several nights before the mock burglary, and Harris actually does catch him. Discovered by the commissioner's wife, an uncompromising woman, she holds them both at gunpoint and delivers them to the police, who recognize Bunko Bill as a famous crook. The commissioner's wife, ashamed to have her husband know that she hired the crook, allows Harris to pose as the hero who has captured the thief, and win the heart of the daughter. <3mn 8s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print calculated at 18fps.~2. Subject description taken from "Dark Carnival" by David J. Skal and Elias Savada, page 252.~3. Incomplete: the content comprises the last three minutes of the film, in which Edward Dillon "captures" two robbers, not one as "Dark Carnival" has it, and gets the girl as the mother looks on.~4. One robber is played by Tod Browning.~5. The mother is not armed, contrary to the description in "Dark Carnival."~6. The intertitles are in verse.~7. Edward Dillon, the creator of this film, died in 1933 - copyright expired.

Genre:

COMEDY
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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