The Fire Flingers
Cast & Crew
Rupert Julian
Rupert Julian
E. A. Warren
Clyde Fillmore
Fred Kelsey
Jane Novak
Film Details
Synopsis
Bearded ex-convicts Richard Hatton and Chris Cotterill get work as printers, their prison vocation, at the Olwell Press. When owner Richard Olwell, who is about to divorce his wife and elope with his stenographer, Maggie Driver, discovers that they are ex-cons, he sends them away without pay. They go to Olwell's home and are fed dinner by Mrs. Olwell, when Olwell arrives intoxicated to get money for his elopement. He orders his wife out of the house and fights with Hatton and Cotterill. When Olwell dies after hitting his head on the fireplace, Hatton shaves and assumes Olwell's identity, saying that the dead man is Hatton and that Cotterill is his new foreman. Mrs. Olwell begins to love her "husband," and when Hatton tells her who he is, she switches her dead husband's fingerprint records with Hatton's at the police station, run by her cousin, to save Hatton from detection.
Director
Rupert Julian
Cast
Rupert Julian
E. A. Warren
Clyde Fillmore
Fred Kelsey
Jane Novak
Fay Tincher
Fritzie Ridgeway
William Lloyd
Will Jeffries
Crew
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Notes
The story first appeared in serialized form in The Saturday Evening Post. The film had a pre-release showing at the Broadway Theatre in New York on March 23, 1919. Some sources list the film as a Jewel Productions, Inc. release.
