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  • A Poor Excuse That Worked (1912)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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A Poor Excuse That Worked (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short
The "boys" have a smoker at the club and phone for Harry to come up. He does so under the excuse that he is going to see a sick friend. Wifey, though suspicious, allows him to go, but warns him to be home by twelve o'clock. As Harry is ...See moreThe "boys" have a smoker at the club and phone for Harry to come up. He does so under the excuse that he is going to see a sick friend. Wifey, though suspicious, allows him to go, but warns him to be home by twelve o'clock. As Harry is leaving, his wife accidentally drops her handkerchief. Harry picks it up and hands it to her. He then exits. He and the boys have a swell affair at the club and he does not notice until too late that he has stayed oat past midnight. White with fear, he hurries home and is unnerved by the sight of his waiting, wrathful wife, as he sees her through a window of his home from the outside. He therefore returns to the club and tells the boys of the horrible situation. They laugh at his predicament, then put their heads together and hatch up a plan that Harry has lost his memory and spring it on the unsuspecting wifey. The plot works beautifully and the handkerchief episode repeated succeeds in restoring buggy's lost memory, whereby he is saved from an awful fate, and the accident has the happy effect of thawing out Mrs. Henpeck's cold, snappy nature and like the ending of a good fairy tale, they both live happy "ever after." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin (producer)
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Updated Jan 6, 1912
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Jan 6, 1912 (United States)

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Jerold T. Hevener
The Husband The Husband   See fewer
The Female Detective (1913)
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The Wife (as Peggy Glynn) The Wife (as Peggy Glynn)   See fewer
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