"The Boy Detective" cinematographer Billy Bitzer (1908)

1908 · Silent film

• Drama
• Crime

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Synopsis

A messenger boy overhears two crooks plotting a robbery and, disguising himself, foils them; the earliest surviving film of Robert Harron, at fourteen.

Synopsis, reviewed

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