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| name = The Automobile Thieves <br />
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| caption = Advertisement in ''The New York Clipper''<br />
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| director = [[J. Stuart Blackton]]<br />
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| starring = [[J. Stuart Blackton]]<br>[[Florence Lawrence]]<br />
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| studio = [[Vitagraph Studios|The Vitagraph Company of America]]<br />
| distributor = The Vitagraph Company of America<br />
| released = 1906<br />
| runtime = 955 feet (11 minutes)<br />
| country = [[United States]]<br />
| language = [[Silent film|Silent]]<br />
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'''''The Automobile Thieves''''' is an American crime-drama [[silent film]] directed by [[J. Stuart Blackton]]. The picture stars Blackton and [[Florence Lawrence]]. It was released on November 10, 1906 by [[Vitagraph Studios|The American Vitagraph Company]]; a print of the feature is preserved in the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AutomobileThieves1906.html | title=The Automobile Thieves | publisher=Silent Era | accessdate=March 4, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Morgan2013">{{cite book|author=Michelle Morgan|title=The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIrABAAAQBAJ&pg=PT118|date=October 17, 2013|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-4721-0034-4|pages=118–}}</ref><br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
:Synopsis by Vitagraph in ''[[New York Clipper|The New York Clipper]]'' (November 1906)<br />
The Thieves' Den - Plotting a big strike - Two of the gang hired as Lady's Maid and Chauffeur by millionaire victim - Robbery, murder, safe blowing and escape in stolen auto - Holdup of auto parties on the highway and sensational robbery of jewels and money while running side by side with another automobile - Police Headquarters - Detectives starting out to trace the criminals - Following the clue - laying a trap - Not yet, but soon, a narrow escape - Desperate pursuit, a race for life and liberty between two fast and powerful cars - Breakdown of the auto thieve's machine, theft of another car - chase continued - surrounded but not surrendered - automobile explodes, bursts into flames and is entirely destroyed - the woman and her pal retreat, fighting desperately - she is wounded, and the man carries her to the den, where after a furious battle with the police, the gang is captured.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[J. Stuart Blackton]] - Male robber<br />
*[[Florence Lawrence]] - Female accomplice<br />
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==Background==<br />
In an advertisement in ''The New York Clipper'', dated 1906, Vitagraph proclaimed that there was a "destruction by fire of a $2,000 automobile" and the picture was "founded on fact - startling in conception and execution - daringly realistic in plot and climax...not cheap, trashy, dime-novel melodrama, but a cleverly constructed, superbly acted production capable of holding the attention of intelligent, up-to-date audience".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/clipper54-1906-11#page/n107/mode/2up | title=Vitagraph | newspaper=The New York Clipper | date=November 1906}}</ref><br />
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This was Florence Lawrence's first movie; she went on to star in more Vitagraph films, but her real name never appeared on the credits. She later went to work with [[Biograph Studios]] and after marrying [[Harry Solter]], she moved to Independent Moving Pictures Company of America (IMP). It was at Independent where Lawrence achieved her first real success with ''The Broken Bath''. As a result of her new found popularity, she earned the nickname - "The First Movie Star". She has also been referred to as - "The Vitagraph Girl", "The Biograph Girl" and after her move to Independent, "The Imp Girl". Lawrence went on to make over 300 films in her career.<ref name="Morgan2013"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|id=233258|title=The Automobile Thieves}}<br />
*{{Tcmdb title|id=564955|title=The Automobile Thieves}}<br />
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[[Category:1906 films]]<br />
[[Category:1906 short films]]<br />
[[Category:American films]]<br />
[[Category:American silent short films]]<br />
[[Category:Vitagraph Studios short films]]<br />
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton]]<br />
[[Category:1900s crime drama films]]<br />
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