The Net of Intrigue (1917) User Reviews

Action is fast

[deickemeyer · 2 February 2015]

This reel, an episode in the "Grant, Police Reporter" series, shows the reporter, George Larkin, in more daring stunts. Pursuing spies who have stole Panama Canal plans, he first makes a flying leap to the rope ladder hanging from the stern of a steamer, and later leaps from the high stern into the water. The story told on the screen is interesting. Action is fast. The reporter this time is fired because he refuses to give the new city editor a story told him in confidence. But he gets his job back after he recovers the plans and gets a better story. In the cast with George Larkin are Ollie Kirkby, Director Robert Ellis, Harry Gordon and Cyril Courtney. - The Moving Picture World, February 10, 1917