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The Burglar's Reformation (1912)
Short | Drama, Short

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The Burglar's Reformation (1912)

Short | Drama, Short

Harold Graves is in love with Myrtle Wisner, but Myrtle is wrapped up in her slum work and has an idea that Harold is too much of a "son of the idle rich," to please her strict ideas. She writes him a note, against her father's wishes, ...See moreHarold Graves is in love with Myrtle Wisner, but Myrtle is wrapped up in her slum work and has an idea that Harold is too much of a "son of the idle rich," to please her strict ideas. She writes him a note, against her father's wishes, informing him that when he can show her that he has helped someone else than himself, she will consider his suit. The night he gets the letter a burglar enters his room and tries to hold him up. Realizing that his chance to do a little good work has arrived he prevails upon the burglar to give himself over to his way of thinking. He dresses him up as a gentleman and gives him plenty of money. Later he gives him work in his office, where he is compelled to handle large sums of money. The burglar at first is obsessed with the temptation to steal the money. He conquers and the man is pleased. He tempts him at home by leaving a large sum of money in his desk and leaving the burglar at home that night. Upon his return he finds the burglar still there and the money intact, although in the meantime the burglar had taken the money out, pocketed it and walked as far as the door. The next day be takes him to see his sweetheart and explained to her and her father all about the burglar's seeming reformation. The father laughs at such a presentment, but the girl believes in its ultimate success. The father and his son quarrel over the question of money before the prospective son-in-law and burglar arrive. The son takes advantage of his father's absence from the room, greeting his daughter's friends, to try and rob his father's safe, but is unsuccessful, due to the fact that his father and the burglar repair to that particular room for a smoke. Finding no cigars at hand, the father steps out to get some and the burglar goes to the window hidden by the curtains, and watches the street without. The son thinking the coast clear returns and opening the safe is about to get away with his father's money when the burglar steps from behind the curtain and stops him. Hearing the father returning the burglar shoves the boy back of the curtains and tries to put the money back in the safe, but is caught by the father. The father calls his daughter and her sweetheart to witness that their experiment of trying to reform a burglar is a failure, for he points out to them that he has caught the burglar red-handed. He starts telephoning the police when his son steps from behind the curtain and makes a clean breast of it all. The father sternly disowns his son, but the burglar pleads with him to give the boy another chance. He finally agrees and leaves the room with his son. The burglar turns to the other two and seeing his presence is not needed, quietly leaves the room. Alone, Harold and Myrtle plight their troth. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Henry B. Walthall The Reformed Burglar The Reformed Burglar See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
James Cooley Harold Graves - the Reformer Harold Graves - the Reformer See fewer	The Van Nostrand Tiara (1913)
Marie Tener Myrtle Wisner Myrtle Wisner See fewer	The Niece and the Chorus Lady (1911)
Charles Herman Mr. Wisner - Myrtle's Father Mr. Wisner - Myrtle's Father See fewer	When the Heart Calls (II) (1912)
Nolan Gane Young Wisner - the Son (as Nolan Gagne) Young Wisner - the Son (as Nolan Gagne) See fewer	The Gratitude of Conductor 786 (1915)