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The Midnight Alarm
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Allen Curtis
Cast: Max Asher [Max], Louise Fazenda [Max’s wife], Bobby Vernon, Gale Henry
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Joker Comedies]. / Released 7 February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A crime wave is sweeping over the city. Max’s wife is worked up to a state of high nervous tension over the newspaper stories. After ascertaining that the entire house is securely locked, she retires. Shortly afterward she hears a sound. She arouses Max, but he pooh-poohs her fears, turns over and goes to sleep. The wife, however, tip-toes out of the room. She locates the strange noise at the kitchen door. After barricading the door with furniture, she telephones for the police. Max, awakened by the noise, hides in a closet. The wife enters and bearing a noise in the closet, barricades that door. She hears other noises at the front door. It is the police, but believing it is the burglars, she barricades that door, then the back door and finally telephones for the fire department. The police break in one door, the firemen another and all come face to face. The combined force then charge the closet in which Max is imprisoned. Max is roughly handled until his identity is discovered. Finally all get together to solve the mystery and the wife leads them to the kitchen where the first strange noise originated. A mouse is discovered stuck to a piece of fly-paper.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 10 May 2020.
References: Website-IMDb.
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