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The Swindlers
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Earle Foxe [Roy Walton], Mae Marsh [Alice Rodney]
Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / From a screen story by Frank E. Woods. / Released 19 May 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A young man comes to New York to secure a position. He falls in love with his landlady’s daughter and later secures a position with the firm of Get-Rich-Quick Investment Company as a solicitor. These people are swindlers, and the landlady falls victim to their lurid advertisements, through the young man. A police captain, friend of hers, informs her that the company is a swindle and that it is to be raided that night. Knowing that the boy is in their employ she forbids his associations with her daughter and accuses him of being in league with the swindlers. He pleads his innocence, and promises to get back the money which she had invested. He hurries to the office of the company, forces his way into the president’s private room and finds the crooks packing their plunder into grip sacks ready to escape by a back door. He starts to make a fuss and they hold him up with revolvers, escaping out the back door. Meanwhile the raiding police have entered the outer office. Our young man has rushed to the back door to follow the crooks, and struggles with the door. He breaks through just before the police enter the president’s room. He follows the crooks and sees them escape in a taxi. In another taxi he follows, overtakes them, seizes a grip of loot, is hit over the head and dragged into the taxi. They carry him into the country and dump him out bound and gagged. After they are gone he is found by a farmer and released. He has found a sailing schedule of a steamship in the office and notes a mark against the sailing time of an Atlantic liner. He gets back to the city and is waiting at the steamship pier when the crooks disguised, arrive to sail away. Our young man penetrates the disguise and holds them up at the gangplank. Fearing a scene they give him the widow’s money. The ship is ready to sail. The police are coming. The delay results in the arrest of the swindlers. The young man is off to the widow’s home, where he returns her cash and is forgiven.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 24 August 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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