A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Swat the Spy
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom

Cast: Jane Lee [Jane Sheldon], Katherine Lee [Katherine Sheldon], Charles Slattery [Andrew Sheldon], P.C. Hartigan (Pat Hartigan) [Karl Schmidt], Florence Ashbrooke [Lena Muller]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [A Fox Excel Picture]. / Scenario by Raymond L. Schrock, from a screen story by Hamilton Thompson and Arvid E. Gillstrom. Cinematography by Al Leach (H. Alderson Leach). Presented by William Fox. / © 28 September 1918 by William Fox [LP12959]. Released 29 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [incomplete 35mm nitrate positive, incomplete 35mm acetate duplicate negative]; and in the Academy Film Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 24 November 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.