''Swat the Spy'' is a 1918 American silent

comedy-drama film Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom and starring Jane Lee, Katherine Lee, Charles Slattery,

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, and Florence Ashbrooke. The film was released by

Fox Film Corporation The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film ...

on September 29, 1918.

Plot

Cast

* Jane Lee as Jane Sheldon *Katherine Lee as Katherine Sheldon *Charles Slattery as Andrew Sheldon *

as Karl Schmidt (as P.C. Hartigan) *Florence Ashbrooke as Lena Muller

Preservation

Incomplete prints survived at the

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and

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.American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Swat the Spy''
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References

External links

* 1918 comedy-drama films 1910s English-language films 1918 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Fox Film films 1910s American films Silent American comedy-drama films {{1910s-comedy-drama-film-stub