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[[File:Implet-1912-01-06-v1n6-p7.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Implet, 24 february 1912, p. 7]]
[[File:MPN-1912-01-06-v5n7-p27-illu.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Moving Picture News, 17 february 1912, p. 27]]

''The Right Clue'' is an American silent movie released on 2 march 1912 (in USA), produced by ''Imp Films Co.'' Black & White. Split reel (600 feet).

Parodic movie written by [[Louise Carter]] after wining the writing contest by Imp Films Co.

Survival status: unknown.

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== Cast ==

* '''Mr. Forbes''' : William Shay
* '''Mrs. Forbes''' : Violet Horner
* '''The Detective''' : [[W. R. Daly]]
* '''Mrs. Phillips''' : ?

== Crew ==

* '''Screenplay''' : [[Louise Carter]]
* '''Producer''' : Otis Turner

<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">
File:Implet-1912-01-06-v1n5-p2.jpg|Presentation (The Implet, 17 february 1912, p. 2)
File:Implet-1912-01-06-v1n9-p6extra.jpg|600 feet (The Implet, 16 march 1912, p. 6 extra sheet)
File:Implet-1912-01-06-v1n6-p2.jpg|Cast in The Implet, 24 february 1912, p. 2
</gallery>

== Plot summary / Review ==

[[File:Implet-1912-01-06-v1n6-p6.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Cast in The Implet, 24 february 1912, p. 6]]
* '''The Implet, 24 february 1912, p. 6'''

'''"THE RIGHT CLUE."'''<br />
(Imp Comedy. Released March 2.)<br />
'''The $100 Prize Scenario.'''

Novelists, dramatists and scenario writers are
fond of "clue" themes. The illustrious Sherlock
Holmes, it will be remembered, makes many
wonderful discoveries on what seems to be very
slender evidence. It is a trick of the stage detective
and the detective of the novel to evolve
something out of nothing, but the audience and
the reader like this sort of pabulum. They like
to see the mystery solved by just this sort of
slender material or evidence. Miss Carter very
adroitly avails herself of this fact. The central
idea of her story is an exceedingly clever one.
Some papers mysteriously disappear; the clue, the
right clue, to the mystery is some cigar ash.

Detective W. R. Daly seizes this clue and he
follows it up patiently, persistently and pertinaciously,
until he finally locates the missing documents
in the hat of a policeman. Just imagine
that! Some papers disappear, some cigar ash is
found, and by means of this cigar ash the papers
are traced and recovered.

This very clever piece of comedy work is bound
to make your patrons laugh, Mr. Exhibitor-Man.
Take it from us, that W. R. Daly, in the part of
the humorous detective of this film, out-Dalys
Daly; he is funny in every fibre.

Miss Carter hit upon an ingenious theme in
this story. It is cleverly and ingeniously worked
out by the Imp comedians, and will add to the
fame of the Imp Films Company's Saturday releases.

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[[File:MPN-1912-01-06-v5n7-p27.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Moving Picture News, 17 february 1912, p. 27]]
* '''Moving Picture News, 17 february 1912, p. 27'''

'''"THE RIGHT CLUE."'''<br />
'''Imp Comedy Release of March 2nd'''<br />
The Imp Film Company's $100 Scenario.

The "right clue" in this story is some cigar ash which at
the very beginning of the film, the master detective of his
age, W. R. Daly, seizes upon as the means of enabling him
to trace the whereabouts of some missing documents.
How "Sherlockey" Daly follows up this clue is illustrated
in this picture which teems with humor, every inch of it.
Daly's object in life is to find the man smoking the same
kind of cigar as that whence the clue ash was derived. As
he stops, interrogates, and questions all and sundry persons
he happens to meet, you may imagine there is no end of fun
in watching his antics.

Finally, Daly discovers an inoffensive policeman smoking
a cigar, the like of which he is searching for. From this
clue the detective makes his main discovery, viz : that the
missing documents are concealed in the policeman's hat.
They got into that hat because the documents were thrown
on the waste tub whence they fell into the hands of the
policeman's cook friend, who finding her lover's hat too
large for him padded it out with the missing papers.
Surely a very interesting theme for an Imp comedy. It is
a profoundly humorous story from start to finish.
Mr. Daly is "it" in the picture and the authoress should
be grateful to him for the manner in which he realizes her
ideal.

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[[File:MPN-1912-01-06-v5n7-p47.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Moving Picture News, 17 february 1912, p. 47]]
* '''Moving Picture News, 17 february 1912, p. 47'''

'''THE RIGHT CLUE'''

Mrs. Phillips sent her confidential business man a parcel of bonds to deposit in a place of safety. Mr. Forbes, the gentleman in question, was about to put them in a safe when an interruption took him from the room, and the precious papers found their way into the waste-paper basket, and, subsequently, into the waste can out of doors.

A detective being called in, discovered in the course of his investigations some cigar ash and comes to the conclusion that the man who smokes this kind of cigar must be the recipient or custodian of the lost bonds. The detective following up this clue examines the cigars smoked by a great many persons, much to their discomfiture and his own inconvenience.

Finally, he comes across a policeman smoking the identical brand of cigar and this fact leads to the discovery that the lost documents are concealed in the policeman's hat, the same being placed there by his sweetheart, the cook, who thinks the hat too large to be becoming and thus pads it out sufficiently for a good fit. And so the cigar ash proved the right clue which led to the recovery of the documents and their return to the proper owner.

The leading feature of the film is the ingenious and logical way the story is worked out. It is provocative of much laughter and abounds in amusing situations. The character of the detective is played by W. R. Daly, who gives a burlesque rendering of the part of the sleuth. Mr. Shay is the man of business who mislaid the bonds, and the parts of the policeman and the cook whom he goes to visit are humorous in the extreme. As an example of the logical working out of the comedy plot in "The Right Clue" it will probably appeal to close students of well-constructed moving picture comedies.

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* [[Conan Doyle on screen]]

The Right Clue - Revision history

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