The Missing Links (1916) Fine Arts/Triangle. Directed by Lloyd Ingraham. Scenario by Bernard McConville. Cast: Thomas Jefferson, Elmer Clifton, Robert Harron, Loyola O'Connor, William Higby, Elinor Stone, Norma Talmadge, Jack Brammall, Hal Wilson, Constance Talmadge, Robert Lawler. 5 reels. This film is LOST
This film was Talmadge's first for Triangle.
| Arthur Gaylord | Thomas Jefferson |
| Horace Gaylord | Elmer Clifton |
| Henry Gaylord | Robert Harron |
| Miss Gaylord | Loyola O'Connor |
| Jasper Starr | William Higby |
| Mrs. Starr | Elinor Stone |
| Myra Holburn | Norma Talmadge |
| C.P. Martin | Jack Brammall |
| James Haskins | Hal Wilson |
| Laura Haskins | Constance Talmadge |
| Chris. Tompins | Robert Lawler |
Fine Arts (Triangle) feature, directed by Lloyd Ingraham, supervisted [sic] by Griffith. A bucolic comedy drama with enough plot to make a good play upon the legitimate stage. Norma Talmadge and Robert Harron are featured, but the entire cast is especially competent, and the only one entitled to stellar honors is Harron, who portrays a youth in about as natural a manner as it is possible to conceive. A murder has been committed and two brothers believe the other has committed it. The working out of the plot is ingenious in its bucolic simplicity. Needless to add the photography is of the superior kind and this, with the fine direction, the good plot and the competent acting, makes for a treat in picturizing.
"The Missing Links" (Fine Arts)
Reviewed by Louis Reeves Harrison.
"The Missing Links" indicates in its title that it needs a guardian. To use any name so near the Darwinian "Missing Links," long a subject of comedy comment, as the title of a story dependent on the solving of a murder mystery for interest, is, to say the least, deplorable. The story contains some dramatic elements and, worked out in true motion-pcture form, the form that Griffith did so much to create and make popular, it might be developed into a thrilling one-reel or two-reel screen story. In its attenuated five-reel form, in spite of good acting, good directing and fine scientific work, it is not up to the standard set by earlier Fine Art films. The director has evidently done the best he could be expected to do with scant material, a murder mystery solved through the finding of one of a pair of cuff links left by the murderer at his victim's side, rounded out by the weakest of endings, the criminal's confession.
Last revised, August 17, 2005