The Amateur Detective
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Screenplay Richard Harding Davis Country United States | Director Carroll Fleming Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 6, 1914 (1914-12-06) People also search for The Mad Racer, Its a Dogs Life, The Trap, Ransons Folly, The Dictator Genres Comedy, Drama, Short Film, Indie film, Silent film, Black-and-white | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Amateur Detective is a 1914 American silent short comedy directed by Carroll Fleming for the Thanhouser Film Corporation. The film starred Carey L. Hastings, Ernest C. Warde and Muriel Ostriche.
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Synopsis
Thanhouser literature describes it as "A laughable parody on Sherlock Holmes."
History and preservation status
This film represented a subgenre of detective parodies common to the era of the Nickelodeon. It is preserved in the AFI/Alfred Bruzzese collection; the surviving print is only a fragment, consisting of 240 feet of the original 990-foot running length.
References
The Amateur Detective Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
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