Betsy's Burglar

Betsy's Burglar (1917) is a romance, comedy film directed by Paul Powell.

Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.

Cast

Constance Talmadge

Betsy Harlow

Kenneth Harlan

Harry Brent

Monte Blue

Victor Gilpin

Joseph Singleton

Jasper Dunn

Josephine Crowell

Mrs. Dunn

Clyde E. Hopkins

Oscar Schlitz (as Clyde Hopkins)

Hal Wilson

James

Kate Bruce

Mrs. Randall

Elmo Lincoln