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Self-Convicted
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Harry Myers, Ethel Clayton
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 25 September 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The plot deals with the life of an honest man living down a mistake of his youth, when, to aid his dying mother, he participated in robbery. After skipping bail, he eventually becomes a detective and is put on his own trail. With his wife and children on one hand, and on the other a record for never failing to get his man, his police training finally conquers and he arrests himself. Expiation and happiness follow, when his superior destroys the Bertillon records of the case. Jim McKefren, called “Mac,” loses his position as a machinist through a cutting down of the forces. Two other men, also discharged, approach him with a plan to rob the safe in the mill office. Driven to desperation by a letter saying that immediate funds are required to save his mother’s life, “Mac” consents. He is arrested. One of his pals furnishes bail, which he jumps, securing work as a strikebreaker in a western city. There he meets Esther Church and through her Mac brings the strike to an end. He finds work on the local detective force, having changed his name. Ten years elapse. Mac, his appearance completely changed, is married to Esther and is on the New York detective force. With a reputation for never failing to land his quarry, he is put on the Denver Jim case, thus becoming his own pursuer. He studies his own fingerprints and Bertillon measurements. His wife suspects and finally, through a ruse, discovers his guilt. To his superior’s repeated question, “Have you found ‘Denver’ Jim?” He finally answers, “Yes,” and produces the evidence of his own guilt. His superior places all evidence in the case in the grate and requests Mac to light a match to it.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 9 October 2023.
References: Sloan-Loud pp. 41, 151 : Website-IMDb.
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