Betsy's Burglar (1917)

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.

Released March 4, 1917 50 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Keywords: tmdb.boarding-house, tmdb.partially-lost-film, tmdb.jewels, imdb.boarding-house, imdb.jewels, imdb.detective, imdb.robbery + 6 more, imdb.lawyer, imdb.kidnapping, imdb.last-will-and-testament, imdb.housemaid, imdb.character-name-in-title, aspectratio.1-33-1