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Betsy's Burglar
“A drama of mystery and adventure -- of plot and counterplot -- of love triumphant.”
0.0 / 10• 1917• 50m•NR• English
RomanceComedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Constance Talmadge
Betsy Harlow
Lead
Kenneth Harlan
Harry Brent
Monte Blue
Victor Gilpin
Joseph Singleton
Jasper Dunn
Josephine Crowell
Mrs. Dunn
Clyde E. Hopkins
Oscar Schlitz (as Clyde Hopkins)
Hal Wilson
James
Kate Bruce
Mrs. Randall
What People Are Saying
0.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Paul Powell's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Betsy's Burglar is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
