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How Slippery Sam Saw the Show
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Roy Clements
Cast: Victor Potel [Slippery Slim], Margaret Joslin [Slim’s wife], Harry Todd [the villain], Ben Turpin, Joe Cassidy, Bill Cato, Florence Cato, Roy Clements, Tom Crizer (Thomas J. Crizer), Eddie Fries, Madrona Hicks, Eva Heazlett (Eva McKenzie), Robert McKenzie, Belle Mitchell, Harry Pollard (Snub Pollard), Ralph Richmond, Pat Rooney (Patrick Rooney), Elizabeth Scott (Betty Scott)
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 6 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Slippery Slim and his wife go to see a company of barnstormers perform in the opera house. Slim carries the baby. The barnstormers, like Shakespeare, are not bothered by details. They use a chair or a table with signs like, “This is a safe,” etc., so as to let the audience in on the reasons for their acting. Slim and his wife are reveling in the drama. Mrs. Slim, womanlike, has fallen in love temporarily with the bold bad villain. But the baby raises its voice in protest, probably in sympathy with the rag doll on the stage, which is being mauled by its alleged mother and father and burglar all at the same time. So Slippery, under protest, goes outside juggling the baby. He is there when the show is ended and he is one of the thousands who was not uplifted by the drama.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 22 May 1915, p.?] “Barnstorming” in the west is amusingly burlesqued in this one-reel farce. The three act “drammer,” played by the troupers, is a gentle reminder of the old ten-twenty-and-thirty days, and very funny. Harry Todd and Dick Turpin are the villains. Victor Potel and Margaret Joslin are a pair of laughable spectators.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.
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