The Amateur Detective

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.

This film represented a subgenre of detective parodies common to the era of the Nickelodeon. It is preserved in the AFIAlfred Bruzzese collection the surviving print is only a fragment, consisting of 240 feet of the original 990foot running length.

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