Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a murder, the two boys are sadly disappointed.
A nickel’s worth of tin, a pamphlet of pipe-dreams, and a hay-wagon rolling toward the minister’s porch—Edgar, the Detective distills the entire silent-era appetite for mischief into twenty breezy minutes. Seldom screened outside university vaults, this 1922 one-reeler—written by Pulitzer laureate Booth Tarkington t...
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" A nickel’s worth of tin, a pamphlet of pipe-dreams, and a hay-wagon rolling toward the minister’s porch—Edgar, the Detective distills the entire silent-era appetite for mischief into twenty breezy minutes. Seldom screened outside university vaults, this 1922 one-reeler—written by Pulitzer laureate Booth Tarkington three years before he published the novel that would become Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons—plays like a backyard detective yarn that wandered in front of a Pathé camera. E..."
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