The Missing Links (film)

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The Missing Links
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Directed by Lloyd Ingraham
Written by D. W. Griffith
Bernard McConville
Produced byD. W. Griffith
StarringThomas Jefferson
Elmer Clifton
Robert Harron
Production
company
Fine Arts Film Company
Distributed by Triangle Film Corporation
Release date
  • January 16, 1916 (1916-01-16)
Running time
50 minutes [1] [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Missing Links is a lost [3] 1916 American silent crime film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Thomas Jefferson, Elmer Clifton, and Robert Harron. [4] The film was written by Bernard McConville and D. W. Griffith, who also produced it. It premiered on January 16, 1916 as a production of the Fine Arts Film Company. It was distributed by Triangle Distributing. The Missing Links was Norma Talmadge's first film for Triangle. [2] [5]

Contents

The film tells of a murder in a small rural town. The major suspects are two brothers, Horace and Henry (Clifton and Harron). Each believes the other to be guilty, so confesses to save their brother.

Actors

ActorRole
Thomas Jefferson Arthur Gaylord
Elmer Clifton Horace Gaylord
Robert Harron Henry Gaylord
Loyola O'Connor Miss Gaylord
William Higby Jasper Starr
Elinor Stone Mrs Starr
Norma Talmadge Myra Holburn
Jack Brammall C. P. Martin
Hal Wilson James Haskins
Constance Talmadge Laura Haskins
Robert Lawler Chris Tompkins

Preservation

With no holdings located in archives, The Missing Links is considered a lost film. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Missing Links (1916)". Allmovie.com. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "The Missing Links". Silentera.com. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Missing Links". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Movie search results for "missing-links"".
  5. ↑ "The Missing Links (1916)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
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