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The Alster Case
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J. Charles Haydon

Cast: Bryant Washburn, John H. Cossar, Ruth Stonehouse, Anne Leigh, Louise Crolius, Betty Scott, Arthur W. Bates, Roderick LaRocque (Rod La Rocque), Beatrice Styler

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / From the novel The Alster Case by Rufus Gillmore. Cinematography by Arthur E. Reeves and Jackson J. Rose. / © 17 November 1915 by Essanay Film Manufacturing Company [LP7001]. Released 6 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis by Victor Kremer Film Features, Incorporated, in 1920.

Drama: Mystery.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0075.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Blackmail, Murder - Death: Murder - Domestics: Butlers - Guardians - Inventors - Law: Enforcement (Police: Detectives), Judicial (Law clerks) - Reputation - Spinsters - Wards

Listing updated: 19 August 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0075; Tarbox-Lost pp. 250, 257.