Kidnapped in New York (1914) DVD-R

Starring Barney Gilmore, Marie Osborne, Violet Stuart

Print: black/white
Runtime: 40 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

This 1914 feature, starring Barney Gilmore, Baby Osborne, and Violet
Stewart, probably seemed interminable to many viewers at the time it
opened, as the first seven minutes are spent in what amounts to a
travelogue of the City of New York -- an element that makes this movie
rather priceless viewing nearly a century later. As to the plot, Gilmore
plays Detective Dooley, who is called in on the case when a series of
robberies take place at the warehouse of a wealthy silk merchant. But the
crooks are sufficiently brazen so that they end up kidnapping Toots (Baby
Osborne), the owner's little daughter, from the care of her nurse (Violet
Stewart), who pluckily joins the detective in trying to find the tot and ends
up in the hands of the crooks, and Dooley trying to rescue both of them.