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  • A Modern Highwayman (1912)
  • Short | Drama, Short
A Modern Highwayman (1912)
Short | Drama, Short
Noah Prespott was a mechanical genius, who had passed some of the most valuable years of life in the employ of William Steele, a manufacturer of labor-saving devices. Noah invented a new street cleaning machine. Steele agreed to go into ...See moreNoah Prespott was a mechanical genius, who had passed some of the most valuable years of life in the employ of William Steele, a manufacturer of labor-saving devices. Noah invented a new street cleaning machine. Steele agreed to go into partnership with Noah and to assure Noah patent protection at Washington. Shrewd and unscrupulous, Steele thus got the game in his own hands and it was not difficult for him to play double; persuade the Washington authorities that Noah was not the real inventor and that he, Steele, was. Unfortunately, Steele was not so careful as he might have been of documentary evidence, showing that Noah was the real inventor. These papers were lying about in Noah's humble home, where he repaired after being dismissed by Steele. To increase poor Noah's troubles a little, a boy and a girl were sent him as a legacy. The kind-hearted fellow tended the little children with all a father's rare and gratified tiny Ruth by stuffing her broken doll with some fragments of paper taken from a waste paper basket. Steele got out his machines and was acclaimed by the press as a great inventor, but his clerk was suspicious of him and at a visit to Noah's home discovered that some paper which came out of the little girl's doll supplied sufficient evidence proving Mr. Steele to have been a partner of Noah's ideas. Confronted with this evidence, therefore, the manufacturer was compelled to disgorge some of his profits to the tune of $10,000. So poor Noah and his young charges were made happy by the money. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Otis Turner
Writer
Otis Turner (scenario)
Producer
Carl Laemmle
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Updated Feb 19, 1912
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Feb 19, 1912 (United States)

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3 cast members
Name Known for
King Baggot
Noah Prescott Noah Prescott   See fewer
Jim Webb, Senator (1914)
William Robert Daly
William Steele (as William R. Daly) William Steele (as William R. Daly)   See fewer
Forgiven; or, the Jack of Diamonds (1914)
William E. Shay
Alfred Jakes (as William Shay) Alfred Jakes (as William Shay)   See fewer
Robespierre (1913)
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