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The Inspector's Story

The Inspector's Story

1914Short
ShortDrama

Jim Sloane, an ironworker, who has lost his job through intemperate habits, leaves his wife dying and continues his protracted spree. Finding her end near, Mrs. Sloane sends her 8-year-old daughter Nell to search for he father and...

Director
Barry O'Neil
Writers
N/A
Stars
Robert Drouet, Eleanor Dunn, John Smiley
Release Date
January 1, 1914
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

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Robert Drouet
as The Inspector
Eleanor Dunn
Eleanor Dunn
as Nell - the Little Girl
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John Smiley
as Jim Sloane - the Father
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Mrs. Allen Walker
as Mrs. Sloane - the Mother
Charles Perley
Charles Perley
as The Governor
Peggy O'Neil
Peggy O'Neil
as The Governor's Wife

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Lubin Manufacturing Company

🎯 Categories

DramaShort

⭐ Featured Review

The best of poetry is questionable material for indicating action
by deickemeyer β€’ 2018-03-31

"Clay M. Greene is credited with the arrangement of this story from his own poem. We are bound to say that the story is much better done than was the poem. The use of the verses to indicate the action instead of depending on straight leaders is responsible for using up out of 1,700 probably 300 feet, that was one exhibitor's estimate, in titles. The best of poetry is questionable material for indicating action, that is, unless it is very short. Robert Drouet is strong and sympathetic as the inspector. Little Eleanor Dunn as the daughter of the man sent to jail does splendid work. She shows..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

Released along with the documentary Manufacturing Pearl Buttons (1914) to fill out the second reel.

πŸ“– Synopsis

Jim Sloane, an ironworker, who has lost his job through intemperate habits, leaves his wife dying and continues his protracted spree. Finding her end near, Mrs. Sloane sends her 8-year-old daughter Nell to search for he father and...