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A Love Riot
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by F. Richard Jones
Cast: Charles Murray [the husband], Louise Fazenda [the wife], Harry Booker [the neighbor], Alice Davenport [the neighbor’s wife], Dora Rodgers (Fontaine La Rue) [the manicurist], Wayland Trask [the barber]
The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Assistant director, Edward Biby. / Released 19 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Murray and Miss Fazenda live in a house adjoining the home of Booker and Miss Davenport. Next door lives Miss Rogers, a manicurist, with whom Trask, a barber, is in love. Murray is making ardent love to Dora when the barber calls. With the implements of his trade in his pocket, Trask chases the trespasser all the way home. Here Murray finds how the barber felt when he found another paying court to his sweetheart. For, in the Murray home the head of the house discovers Booker, whose flirtatious efforts are finding cordial response from Louise. Two hitherto happy homes are thus broken up. Murray goes home to his mother while Booker is locked in his sleeping room without his clothes. The train on which Murray had planned to leave town is wrecked, but Dora has prevented a catastrophe. On his way Murray has met her. He has forgotten all his troubles when Trask again appears. The interloper is for the second time sent on his way. Force of habit takes him home. His reception is similar to the first return. Booker, believing that his neighbor has been killed in the wreck, has escaped in his pajamas and is consoling the supposed widow. After a chase over nearby roofs the air is cleared of misunderstanding.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Lahue-Kops p. 158 : Website-IMDb.
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