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Others Started It, But Sophie Finished
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Roy Clements

Cast: Margaret Joslin [Sophie Clutts], Victor Potel [Slippery Slim], Harry Todd [Mustang Pete], Ben Turpin [the husband], Carrie Turpin [the wife]

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 22 July 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at the Essanay studio in Niles, California.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [From The Moving Picture World]? When his wife dares to buy a new hat, the husband beats her. She receives a telegram from her mother stating that she will arrive that morning to “look the new husband over.” Mustang Pete dresses like the mother-in-law and beats the husband as well as Slippery Slim, who takes the husband’s part. Having been kicked out of the house, the two kidnap Todd and push him over a cliff with a rope around him. They, too, catch in the rope and dangle in the air, the rope having caught on a tree stump. The husband falls to the ground and, returning home, is beaten by the real mother-in-law, who has arrived. He attempts to kill himself but is saved by his apologetic wife and mother-in-law.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 April 2024.

References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.

 
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