| The Amateur Detective | |
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| Directed by | Carroll Fleming |
| Starring | Carey L. Hastings, Ernest C. Warde, Muriel Ostriche |
| Studio | Thanhouser Film Corporation |
| Distributed by | Mutual Film Corporation |
| Running time | 1 reel |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
The Amateur Detective is a 1914 American silent short comedy directed by Carroll Fleming for the Thanhouser Film Corporation. The film starred Carey L. Hastings, Ernest C. Warde and Muriel Ostriche.
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Thanhouser literature describes it as "A laughable parody on Sherlock Holmes.[1]"
This film represented a sub-genre of detective parodies common to the era of the Nickelodeon[2]. It is preserved in the AFI/Alfred Bruzzese collection[3]; the surviving print is only a fragment, consisting of 240 feet of the original 990-foot running length[4].