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The Amateur Detective

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Screenplay
  
Richard Harding Davis

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Carroll Fleming

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Amateur Detective movie scenes Following DNA analysis of evidence reportedly found at the scene of one of the Jack the Ripper murders an English businessman and a freelance criminologist

Release date
  
December 6, 1914 (1914-12-06)

Cast
  
Ernest C. Warde, Muriel Ostriche, Carey L. Hastings, J.S. Murray, Harris Gordon

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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