The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee


1917

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Balboa Amusement Producing Co.; A Fortune Photoplay
Distribution Company
General Film Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee" by Howard Fielding (pseud. of Charles Witherle Hooke) (publication undetermined).

Synopsis

Playwright Harry Larrabee unwittingly becomes the leading figure in a theft aimed at Carolyn Vaughn, the young woman living down the hall with whom he is in love. Carolyn's acquaintance, Madame Batonyi, is coerced by a thug called The Wolf to visit Carolyn and ask to see her jewels. The Wolf then enters the apartment by a dumbwaiter and drugs Carolyn with chloroform. His plans go awry when Harry overhears the crime being committed and spirits Carolyn away in a taxicab to the house of his friend Dr. Wendell, where she is revived with a pulmotor. The mystery of the missing jewels is then finally unraveled when The Wolf and his accomplice Dr. Stettina kill one another in a gun duel, and Madame Batonyi confesses that The Wolf was her husband who had viciously forced her into a life of crime.

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Balboa Amusement Producing Co.; A Fortune Photoplay
Distribution Company
General Film Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee" by Howard Fielding (pseud. of Charles Witherle Hooke) (publication undetermined).

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According to news items, this production was the first release in the Fortune Photoplay series, which was comprised of adaptations of stories that appeared in various Street and Smith publications, including Popular, People's, Smith's and Ainslee's magazines.