The Voice at the Telephone
Cast & Crew
Charles Giblyn
Thomas Chatterton
Harrington Reynolds
Anna Little
Herschel Mayall
David Hartford
Film Details
Synopsis
John Carson disinherits his son Dick for gambling and orders him from their house. Late at night, Dick returns for his clothes and hears a struggle downstairs. He enters his father's library and finds his father lying on the floor with a pistol at his side. After the police arrive and the servants testify about Dick's quarrel with his father, he is jailed. His sweetheart, Clara Morrison, a switchboard operator, tells the police that she overheard the struggle on the telephone and swears that she can identify the attacker. After the police subject Dick and other suspects, including Spike Kennedy, a burglar, to sometimes brutal third degree questioning, the suspects speak to Clara over the telephone and she identifies Kennedy's voice as the one she heard. The police stage a reenactment of the shooting and Kennedy confesses. John, who was only badly wounded, recovers and blesses the union of his son with Clara, of whom he earlier disapproved because she was a telephone girl.
Director
Charles Giblyn
Cast
Thomas Chatterton
Harrington Reynolds
Anna Little
Herschel Mayall
David Hartford
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This film was also called The Voice at the Phone and The Voice on the Phone. It was released in two parts of two reels each; part 1 on June 19, 1914 and part 2 on June 26, 1914.
