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| The Midnight Prowlers | |
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| Directed by | Bobby Burns Walter Stull |
| Produced by | Louis Burstein |
| Starring | Bobby Burns Walter Stull Ethel Marie Burton Edna Reynolds Oliver Hardy Frank Hanson Billy Ruge |
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| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The Midnight Prowlers is a 1915 American silent comedy film produced by the Vim Comedy Company featuring Bobby Burns & Walter Stull.
Mr. and Mrs. Jabbs live in a suburban retreat where the police force is conspicuous by its absence. Burglaries are rife in the neighborhood. The Jabbs family get the scare of their lives one night when the cat pulls a vase from the table in trying to get out of the house for a midnight prowl. A detective must be hired is the secret resolve of both Mr. and Mrs. Jabbs, and forthwith they proceed to hire one. But one does not inform the other which results in Mrs. Jabbs hiring a male sleuth in the person of Loos Pokes and Mr. Jabbs hiring a female Sherlock Holmes. The two sleuths are unaware of each other's identity and there the trouble begins. Gum Shoe Pete, the cracksman, gets into the house. Mr. and Mrs. Jabbs hear the noise but think it is "only the detectives." Meanwhile the two detectives have met and are spooning in the moonlight (they should worry about burglars). While Pete is piling his booty in his sack, by an unlucky chance, he stumbles and the pack falls, burying him. The detectives hear the noise. So do Mr. and Mrs. Jabbs. All four appear on the scene. The female sleuth grabs Mrs. Jabbs and the male sleuth grabs Mr. Jabbs and start for the station house. But explanations follow just as the real crook is discovered and all ends as it should. —Moving Picture World synopsis [1]
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