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Going Up
(1916) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Louis Myll
Cast: Harry Watson Jr. (Harry Watson) [Musty Suffer], George Bickel [the bandmaster], Rosa Gore [Dippy Mary], Alma Hanlon [the dream girl]
George Kleine Productions production; distributed by Kleine-Edison Feature Service. / Released 22 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Musty steals a ride on an automobile rumble and falls sleep as comfortably as if he were in a Pullman berth. All goes well until the machine runs over a rock and Musty is cast to earth. He rises and hurls away the offending rock, which strikes the bandaged foot of a gouty passerby. Musty then calmly resumes his nap in the middle of the road, undisturbed by the passing autos, which miss him by inches. Dippy Mary arrives upon the scene, and struck by Musty’s unnatural beauty, falls in love with him. The result is that she gives him free reign in her employer’s mansion during the latter’s absence. A waiter arrives with a splendid lunch, which Musty would have enjoyed hugely had not an expressman dropped a trunk on one of the upper floors, causing the plaster to fall from the ceiling onto the repast. Musty tips the waiter with a large, juicy pie, which he hurls into the face of the menial. A downy bed in the room tempts Musty. He climbs in and falls asleep. His slumber is punctuated with beautiful dreams, during which he bathes in a bath-tub full of beer and makes the acquaintance of several charming damsels. The dreams are disturbed, however, by the serenades of a “little Dutch band” and Musty is forced to drop water, pieces of furniture and various other missiles to persuade the serenaders to depart. Resuming his slumber, he dreams of a beautiful maid who tempts him with a bumper of sparkling wine. While pursuing the illusion, he falls out of the second-story window and bounds into a passing ambulance, in which he is whisked away.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 July 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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