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Out of Order
(1916) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Louis Myll
Cast: Harry Watson Jr. [Musty Suffer], George Bickel [Willie Work], Dan Crimmins [the arcade boss], Della Connor [the ticket taker], H.H. McCullum [Professor Hypno], Mayfield Moree (Maxfield Moree) [the bouncer]
George Kleine Productions production; distributed by Kleine-Edison Feature Service. / Released 20 April 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Musty Suffer, yearning earnestly for a quiet, easy and reposeful job, calls upon his faithful fairy to provide it for him. He is taken to an amusement arcade where he is hypnotized by one of the freaks in the show, provided with a gorgeous uniform in a jiffy and assigned to the job of ticket taker, chief janitor, boot black, “spieler,” hat cleaner, target in a shooting gallery and superintendent of an escalator. In addition to these few duties Musty was assigned to run chores and entertain the freaks in the museum. Musty finds great pleasure in working the escalator leading to the moving picture theater but the “bouncing” of patrons who fail to go through the formality of buying tickets is one of his chief difficulties, but one which he overcomes promptly when he discovers the reverse action of the escalator. Musty also has several discouraging adventures with the wild man, the lion, the bearded lady, etc., which escape periodically from the museum or the menagerie, but meets each emergency in some ingenious way.
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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