Volume II: Filmography

AN INSIDE TIP

January 10, 1915 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (1,000 feet)

Character: Drama

Director: W. Eugene Moore, Jr.

Scenario: John William Kellette

Cast: Mignon Anderson (Nell), Morris Foster (Jack Morrison, police reporter for The Herald)

ARTICLE, The New Rochelle Pioneer, October 10, 1914:

"W. Eugene Moore starts An Inside Tip today, with Morris Foster and Mignon Anderson in the leads. It's a newspaper story about a crooked secretary for the district attorney, and is filled with thrills. Kellette wrote the script. It will be a two-reel [sic; apparently in error] Thanhouser."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, January 2, 1915:

"Whitey's gang of crooks have flourished on waterfront robbery because Tom, the district attorney's secretary, has tipped them off from the inside. Jack Morrison, a police reporter for The Herald, joins the gang for the sake of a story later. He is suspected, however, by the crooks; and Nell, a girl of the underworld, overhears Whitey and his pals plotting to make way with the new member. She decides to 'squeal,' as Jack has formerly defended her from insult. The police, however, won't believe her story. Meanwhile, the gang has got Jack in its power. They determine to drop him, gagged and bound, in the river, under cover of darkness. Nell again appeals to the authorities, and this time the police sergeant believes her. She and the policemen give chase in a motor boat. They reach the craft containing the crooks just after Jack has been dropped overboard. Nell dives after him while a gun battle is on, and with the aid of one of the policemen she gets him unbound and into the motor boat. After the crooks have been rounded up, Jack's editor, who has been called to the police station, says that he will be responsible for Nell. But Jack relieves his chief of that responsibility."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, January 23, 1915:

"This story of a young reporter who wishes to expose the gang of river pirates, has a rather mechanical plot. He was captured and bound by the gang, but saved through the efforts of the girl. The offering is fairly strong."

REVIEW, The New York Dramatic Mirror, February 3, 1915:

"Newspaper reporters continue to live highly sensational lives in pictures, if not in reality. This one joins a band of crooks that he may gather material for a story, but his motives are suspected by the gangsters, and they plan to place him among the permanently missing. A girl who sells newspapers for a living learns that there is a plot against Jack, and informs the police, who do not credit her tale. Later, when the reporter lies bound and gagged on a lonely beach, she guides the rescue party in a launch. The crooks, headed for the beach in a rowboat, are captured after volleys of pistol shots have been exchanged at close range, and several of the occupants of both crafts have jumped overboard. A fair example of a crook melodrama acted in the principal roles by Mignon Anderson and Morris Foster."

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