An Interrupted Game
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Mack Sennett
Cast: Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon) [Baxter], Vivian Prescott [Baxter’s wife]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by George Hennessy. / Released 10 August 1911; in a split-reel with That Dare Devil (1911). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Baxter, to get away to join the boys in a little game of cards, tells his wife he is going to visit a sick friend. She gives him until ten o’clock. When he doesn’t return she goes after him and consequently his friend has to play sick, receiving at the hands of Baxter’s sympathetic wife mustard plasters, etc. For the time, the friend submits to the torture, but “never again!”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 April 2020.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
|