|
The Judge
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Cast: Charles Murray [the policeman], Louise Fazenda [the manicurist], Harry Booker [the judge], Wayland Trask [the manicurist’s sweetheart], Phyllis Allen [the policeman’s wife], Bert Gillespie (Albert T. Gillespie) [the fat man]
The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / Released 5 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Miss Fazenda is a manicurist who inspires flirtatious tendencies in all the men with whom she comes in contact but is true to her husband, Wayland Trask. Charles Murray, a motorcycle policeman, tries to flirt with her in her shop and when she repulses him places her under arrest. In the court over which Harry Booker presides the manicurist makes a distinct impression on the judge. She permits him to flirt with her until she gets her discharge. As she leaves the court Judge Booker adjourns for the day and follows her home. Because of his age the manicurist is patient with him. To prove that a man is not old because he has lived long the judge dances so violently about the shop that he rips his trousers. In sympathy Louise offers to mend them while he waits. This is the situation when the husband returns. There is a lively fight in which Officer Murray takes part, ending with the escape of Trask and the ejection of Booker minus his trousers. The judge rectifies this deficiency in a nearby second-hand store and goes back to the bench. The first prisoner is Trask, who has been brought in by Murray on a charge of speeding. The judge is about to impose the maximum sentence when Louise enters with the mended trousers on her arm. As Booker again becomes a lenient judge his wife enters. As she sees the manicurist with her husband’s trousers she yanks Booker from the bench and leads him from the courtroom crestfallen. Trask then grabs the gavel, knocks out Murray with it and leaves the court triumphantly with Louise.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Law: Judges
Listing updated: 19 November 2022.
References: Lahue-Kops p. 157 : Website-IMDb.
|
