The Man in the Box

The Man in the Box

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 19, 1908

Runtime

0h 6m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

30%

Original Title

The Man in the Box

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Director

Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Description

A poorly compensated bank clerk is, we may say, to that trying position of "Tantalus" in sight of tons of money but not a dollar of his own. This became more torturing as time went on, until at last, when the bank was arranging to ship a large quantity of cash to the West to relieve the recent money stringency, he made up his mind to heed the solicitude of that specter which had haunted him. Listening to the instructions given to the bank's messenger as to the shipment of the funds, he hustles off to a gang of crooks in whose company he had fallen.