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  • Izzy, the Detective (1914)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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Izzy, the Detective (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy
Izzy, because of his own laziness, has lost his job. Misfortunes never come singly, however, and hot upon the heels of this disaster Izzy learns that his girl has deserted him. Despite all his efforts to connect with a new position, Izzy ...See moreIzzy, because of his own laziness, has lost his job. Misfortunes never come singly, however, and hot upon the heels of this disaster Izzy learns that his girl has deserted him. Despite all his efforts to connect with a new position, Izzy fails to do so. He has about plumbed the depths of despair when he reads the advertisement of a fake detective agency: "Be a Sleuth. Ten Lessons for Ten Dollars." Izzy always had had a sneaking ambition to be a regular Sherlock Holmes and he at once subscribes his ten dollars. He receives his ten printed lessons together with a number of placards advertising rewards for criminals, who long since have passed to their fathers. The office boy employed by the detective agency in taking the photographs of the criminals to the printers, has lost one of them and in order to hide his own carelessness, substitutes the photograph of a prominent English nobleman then visiting the city. Izzy, of course, picks out the photograph of the nobleman and as the latter passes through the streets has him arrested. His false accusation enmeshes him still deeper in difficulties and poor Izzy is put in solitary confinement for insulting the representative of a foreign government. After spending some time in jail he is released and warned to get a regular job or be imprisoned again on a charge of vagrancy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Jul 1, 1914
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Jul 1, 1914 (United States)

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