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A Reporter’s Romance
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
Cast: (unknown)
Solax Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 20 January 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Editha Brawnson, a successful magazine writer, receives a letter from the Managing Editor requesting her to secure a story depicting the life of the Underworld. Miss Brawnson determines to get the necessary data for her article by disguising herself as a habitué of the underworld and mingling with the people whose lives her facile pen will portray. She begins by entering a cheap saloon on the lower East Side. While there she discloses a large sum of money, which attracts the attention of old Mother Gessop, a habitué of the place. Mother Gessop persuades Editha to go with her, and introduces the daring young woman to the leader of a gang of notorious robbers. The chief of the gang of robbers, becoming suspicious of Editha, determines to put her to the test. He forces her to accompany him to a house, and awaits outside while Editha enters the place. As she is about to rifle the safe she is interrupted by Bert King, the owner. Surprised to find a woman engaged in such an occupation, King, nevertheless, thinks it his duty to give her up to the police. As he turns in an alarm Editha faints. Bert makes a careful scrutiny of his prisoner and discovers the letter from the Managing Editor, which disclosed to him Editha’s identity. He sidetracks the police and allows Editha to depart. Bert subsequently sees Editha in her home; they marry and live happily ever after, and the burglars are arrested and thrown into prison.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 February 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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