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  • Jim the Burglar (1913)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Jim the Burglar (1913)
Short | Comedy, Short
Jim Brown is out of a job; he decides to turn crook. He succeeds in entering a house, where he sees a nice cake on the table. After he has devoured most of the cake, he finds a note which the lady of the house has left as a caution to her ...See moreJim Brown is out of a job; he decides to turn crook. He succeeds in entering a house, where he sees a nice cake on the table. After he has devoured most of the cake, he finds a note which the lady of the house has left as a caution to her husband, "Not to eat this cake as it has been poisoned for the rats." This gives Jim a scare and he beats it for an antidote. On his second job he is caught by the man of the house in the nursery, and as he is being held at the point of a gun, prior to the telephoning for the police, the baby happens to awaken and starts to cry. The man makes Jim walk the baby up and down and play child's nurse. Still undaunted, Jim steals into the room of an actress at a hotel. He finds no one in the room to molest him and as there is a jewel case well filled with jewels on the bureau, he takes the same and leaves the place well satisfied with his loot. Imagine his surprise upon taking them to sell, when he is told they are imitation and only gets two dollars for the whole lot. Jim determines that his next job will be something big, so he decides to crack a safe. He drills and bores and labors for three hours, at the end of which time the safe is opened. When Jim grabs the cash box, he discovers that it is empty, with the exception of a note from the absconding bookkeeper, saying that he has taken all the ready cash and gone. This is the last straw, and Jim determines that honesty is the best policy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Arthur Hotaling
Writer
E.W. Sargent
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Mar 20, 1913
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Mar 20, 1913 (United States)

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