Betsy's Burglar (1917)
A drama of mystery and adventure -- of plot and counterplot -- of love triumphant.
50 min
Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.
- Release date
- March 4, 1917
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Constance Talmadge as Betsy Harlow
- Kenneth Harlan as Harry Brent
- Monte Blue as Victor Gilpin
- Joseph Singleton as Jasper Dunn
- Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Dunn
- Clyde E. Hopkins as Oscar Schlitz
- Hal Wilson as James
- Kate Bruce as Mrs. Randall
- Elmo Lincoln
Crew
- Paul Powell · Director
- Frank E. Woods · Writer
- John W. Leezer · Cinematographer