Betsy's Burglar

A drama of mystery and adventure -- of plot and counterplot -- of love triumphant.

Betsy's Burglar — Plot

Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.

• Release date
• March 4, 1917
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Romance, Comedy
• Director
• Paul Powell

Betsy's Burglar — Cast

Constance Talmadge Betsy Harlow Kenneth Harlan Harry Brent Monte Blue Victor Gilpin Joseph Singleton Jasper Dunn Josephine Crowell Mrs. Dunn Clyde E. Hopkins Oscar Schlitz (as Clyde Hopkins) Hal Wilson James Kate Bruce Mrs. Randall