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Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1914Item number (ISN):180229Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETYAccession:1979-0191Media:FilmOriginal title:The HousebreakersProduction date:1914Release date:1914-12-13Production company:Komic Film CompanyProduction credit:director, Edward DillonCast credit:Tod Browning, Fay Tincher, Edward Dillon, Max Davidson, Sylvia Ashton, Ed RiceCountry of production:usDistributor name:Mutual Film CorporationDescription: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 intertitlesNotes:Genre:COMEDYDetailed holdings information: -
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