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- An unemployed actor is mistaken for the new preacher in a small town.
- Vic is moving into the new bungalow, and when he has things straightened out somewhat they all go to bed for the first night in the new house. The agent said there were no mosquitoes, but they are nearly eaten alive during the night. The next morning Vic rises early in order to do his bit by planting all the available space, but the mosquitoes allow him to plant only a small space. After this he takes the children fishing in an alleged lake, but a storm comes up. He manages to get the children into the house, but the "ocean breezes" send the house around like a merry-go-round, and he cannot get on it. When he does he is all in, but the baby is delighted with his ride and he says "make it go around again, Daddy." This is too much for Vic and he nearly passes away.
- Vic's wife receives a telegram stating that her mother is ill and to come at once. Vic insists that she go, and she consents if he promises to take good care of the children. Vic begins to look after the children and the house, and when Rudolph Carey, his next door neighbor, and his wife bring theirs over for him to watch while they go shopping, he has his hands full. He orders three dozen meat balls and a couple of dozen cream puffs, which the children use in playing war. Vic is in the middle of the fight when the neighbors get back and ask "Where are my children?" "Pick them out yourself," says Vic. "I don't know my own."
- Vic takes his family to a bungalow in the country and forgets to gauge the distance between the bungalow and the depot or to discover beforehand that he has only one train a day to depend on to get to business. Of course he misses his train the first morning. Some fun is also extracted from his attempt to get home from the village with the family supplies.
- Vic works hard at the washtub in the kitchen, but the Queen of the carnival will pick her King by choosing someone's shoe from a basket, and the shoe she chooses ends up to be Vic's.
- Moore returns from a gay party, having imbibed too freely. Statuary seem to bow to him. Forgetting his wife is away, he takes off his shoes and they seem to walk upstairs without him. He begins to think something must be wrong and starts up to his room. He enters and it appears to be revolving at a rapid rate. He goes to bed without removing his clothes, just as the butler with a telegram knocks on the door. The telegram informs him that his wife will be home immediately and adds that she hopes he has kept on the water wagon. Vic is at a loss what to do and starts to clean up the room of all traces that might show he was out late. Mrs. Vic arrives and is surprised at not seeing Vic. She asks where he is. The butler informs her that he is upstairs. Mrs. Vic proceeds immediately to Vic's room and Vic, hearing her approaching, managed to get his hat and coat on and is coughing hard as Mrs. Vic enters. He tells her he is suffering from a severe cold and she makes him take some medicine. She goes to his pockets to get his muffler to put around his neck, when she finds champagne corks. Vic tells her it is a new game, but if you get five you win. She is satisfied and he starts to his office, taking the medicine with him. Vic is a lawyer, and while trying to ease his headache with ice, a message comes from Mlle. Elise of the Follies, that as her engagement closed, she is calling for London and intends giving a celebration and would like to have Vic serve as toastmaster. Another friend of Vic's, having received a similar request, points out the wonders of the occasion and Vic consents to go, telling his friend he will inform his wife that "he will be detained at the office." That night, on account of Vic "being detained at the office," Mrs. Vic goes along to the Windermere reception. The butler, discovering that no one is to be home, plans to rob the house. After Mrs. Vic leaves he proceeds to put everything into a bag. After the reception, Mrs. Vic hails an old hansom and tells the cabby to drive to the nearest drug store. Vic, after leaving Mlle. Elise's party, accompanied by two other fellows, is coming down the street very much under the weather. As they pass a drug store they come upon the old hansom and bet Vic he won't dare drive it. Vic takes the bet. In the meantime the butler and his accomplice are chased by an officer. The butler escapes, but the accomplice runs up and saves the bag of silverware in the hansom with Mrs. Vic. He makes his escape as the officer stops the cab. He is surprised at finding a well-dressed woman in the cab, but believes that she is also an accomplice. He discovers the silverware and arrests Mrs. Vic and Vic, but neither knows the other has been arrested. The butler returns home, determined to tell about the burglary and his heroic efforts to stop it. In the morning Vic is hauled before the judge, who is indeed surprised to see him. Vic explains matters and the judge, who is a personal friend, warns him in a mock serious manner never to do it again or he will tell Mrs. Vic. Mrs. Vic has insisted upon having her husband defend her. An officer is dispatched home for Vic. He recognizes the butler as an old-time convict, wanted for escape from Sing Sing, and arrests him. As Vic turns to leave, he nearly faints when he discovers his wife, who throws her arms about his neck and tells him that she is so glad he has come. Vic bluffs his way through and tells her she might have known he would come. Mrs. Vic starts to explain what happened. Vic tells her that he will speak to the judge. The bag of silverware is brought out and Vic is dumbfounded to find that it is their own property. The butler is brought in. Mrs. Vic is freed, but Vic warns her if she wishes to get along with him she will have to keep out of jail. Mrs. Vic laughs and sobs on Vic's neck and Vic winks knowingly at the judge.
- Vic Moore is employed by Walter Higgins, a broker. Vic and his wife revel in tangoing and Vic also has a passion for Welsh rarebits. One night after partaking of his favorite dish, he rises from bed, picks up the alarm clock, a cane and his wife's hat, and tangos out of the room to the fire escape. On the platform below he dislodges a milk bottle and the crash awakens his wife, who hastily puts on Vic's overcoat and cap and follows down the fire escape. Casey, a bicycle cop, is astounded at the sight of the pajama clad figure of Vic reposing on the guard of an automobile drawn up at the curb, and tries various methods to awaken him. Mrs. Vic appears and explains. When all other measures have failed, she sets the alarm and the familiar sound awakens him, and he returns to his apartment swearing to cut out the festive rarebit. The next morning he finds his employer, Walter Higgins, in a state of terror. Vera Thomas, a show girl, is going to bring suit against him for breach of promise unless he marries her. She has a big bundle of his love letters to prove her contention. He promises Vic to raise his salary $5,000 a year if he obtains those letters from Vera. Vic writes to Vera that he is a wealthy westerner who has seen her performance and would like to star her in musical comedy. Vera, who is in love with Delmont, the tenor of the company, is delighted. Vic meets Vera at the stage door and proposes that they talk the matter over at her apartment. Higgins follows and hides near the house. If Vic gets the letters he is to drop them out of the window. Mrs. Vic has been notified that he will not be at home until late and has covered his pajamas with a sign reading: "Victor Moore, sleepwalker. Return to Rex apartments, apartment 4-D." Vic is astounded to find that he lives in the same place and that his apartments are just above Vera's. Vera suggests that they have a Welsh rarebit, and Vic tries to sidestep it, but she insists. After eating he finds an excuse to send Vera from the room and locates Higgins' letters, but before he can get them, Vera reappears. He leaves and returns to his apartments, thinking Higgins has departed, but the latter is still hanging around below. Soon after Vic retires, the rarebit gets in its work, and he goes down the fire escape in his pajamas. He enters Vera's room, where she and her maid are in night robes. Vera does not recognize him and the two women watch him as he searches the cabinet. As he bends over to look into a drawer Vera and the maid see the card with his name. Mrs. Vic, who has awakened, comes down the fire escape in a kimona and motions the women to be cautious. Vic goes to the table and his hand touches a cigarette that Vera has placed there. The burn awakens Vic. Vera starts towards him. Mrs. Vic grabs her and tells her he is still asleep. Vic hears this speech and takes advantage of the opportunity to get the letters. Vera, alarmed, follows him to the window. He throws the letters to Higgins, who burns them in a vacant lot. Vic and his wife return to their apartments and Vera faints in the arms of her maid. Mrs. Vic lashes his hands and feet to the bed with his dressing gown cord and he accepts the situation as a penance for breaking his resolve not to eat Welsh rarebit.
- Victor Moore starts out to purchase an automobile. He is confronted by a salesman who offers him a dilapidated "flivver" for $99.99. Vic is enthused, but cannot see his way clear to spend such a vast amount of money. He therefore reverses the card so that the figures become $66.66. Vic, elated over the happiness he has brought to his family, proceeds homeward to show them his purchase. Mrs. Moore, followed by a group of little Moores, crowds out to view this "new" toy. They glory in anticipation of coming pleasures, while their neighbors, green with envy, sneer at the car and ridicule it. Having foreseen the necessity of a garage, Vic has already had one built, and deciding that it is time to store the car for the night, he backs it into the garage, only to find it is not large enough, and in consequence the hood of the flivver projects over the front of the garage. With the conviction that he should have bought a smaller car, and having no alternative, he chains the car to the garage. The next morning Vic spends $6.06 on accessories, which include an automobile map, and outlines a trip that extends over 300 miles. Even little baby Moore has been supplied with an auto duster and goggles, and they are ready to start. Vic proceeds to get the car out of the garage. He cranks the car and it starts towards him, taking garage and all. His neighbors rejoice at his plight. He finally succeeds in untangling himself and ushers his family into the car. No sooner seated comfortably than he discovers the horn is out of order and rushes into the house and comes back with the "family parrot." "Friend wife" discovers she has forgotten to take the baby's milk, which is boiling on the gas stove, and Vic rushes to get it. He finds the milk boiling over and in trying to save it gets his fingers scalded. He again gets into the car. He starts the machine and has not gone over six feet when it stalls, and he is compelled to "get out and get under." He gets a cinder in his eye, which forces him to shut both eyes, and one of the little Moores starts the car accidentally. Vic is unaware that the car is no longer over him. A rag man coming down the street stations himself over Vic's body. Vic succeeds in getting the cinder out of his eye. Through a hole in the rag man's wagon Vic pulls out old shoes and clothes and begins to realize what he imagines is the matter with his automobile. The rag man starts again and comes into contact with Vic's body. Vic gets up, sees his family far down the road, and starts after the flivver. He catches up with it just as the engine stalls. Vic decides he has had enough of automobiling and orders his family to assist in "pushmobiling" home.
- Vic is running a " lunch-urant " according to the Food Administration idea, by having a meatless day on Tuesday and a wheatless day on Wednesday. A janitor, longing for a real taste of meat on pay day, gets out and makes straight for Vic's, who is advertising a meal ticket for $5.00. The janitor buys one, figuring that every Tuesday he is off he will get a real feed of meat, but Vic informs him that it is Tuesday and a meatless day in all restaurants. The janitor departs, swearing revenge for the meatless meal ticket he purchased. In the meantime, Vic's wife gets the " saving idea," and digs up all the old family clothes out of the attic to be worn out before purchasing any new ones. The janitor goes back to Vic's the next day, which is Wednesday, and orders a " herd " of wheat cakes. Vic informs him that it is a wheatless day. A " free for all " follows, in which Vic is badly handled, and the janitor goes back to the asylum threatening to do all sorts of things. Vic rushes home to get some other clothing to replace his torn ones. His wife makes him put on a suit which she has found in the attic. He goes back to the restaurant in what looks like a disguise. The janitor is back with all the " Weed-etarians." They demand the janitor's money back, but Vic compromises by offering to give them all a banquet for it. Everything is all right until Vic serves meat to the " Weed-etarians," and then the trouble starts. Vic is given some handling, and a tremendous "wallop" at the finish.
- Vic, discovered in a blacksmith shop with Pudge, his helper, is wishing that some day he will see some of the swell city girls like those in the papers in the barber shops. A tallyho loaded with girls is en route through the country, and just as it is passing Vic's blacksmith shop the wheel of the tallyho hits the corner of the blacksmith shop and nearly knocks it to pieces. The tallyho stops and Vic and his helper rush out. The girls get down from the tallyho and Vic is confronted with his wish. Vivian, the leader of the party, immediately becomes infatuated with Vic's bashfulness, and before the party leaves Vivian invites Vic to call on her in the city. Vic and his helper, Sunday clothes and all, leave for the big city, and on arrival Vic makes for Professor Mush's School to take love lessons. After six tailor made lessons, he visits Vivian, only to get into all kinds of trouble with her mother. This leads Vic with his "faint heart" to decide to steal Vivian. It develops that Professor Mush is also in love with Vivian, and that he has been teaching Vic to make love to his own girl. He also decides to steal Vivian, and both armed with ladders start for her house. Needless to mention, many mishaps happen with the ladders, and in the finish we find Vic the winner.
- Vic, a delicatessen store keeper, makes so much money that his wife can afford to go in for "cults" and "creeds." He finds home so often occupied by long-haired Bohemians that he decides on harsh measures. He learns hypnotism and has his wife singing at his bidding. He can't bring her out however and is forced to go after his teacher. The teacher also is hypnotized and Vic is in trouble all around. He remembers his book of instructions and gets it out. When his wife and the professor are brought out of their trance happiness reigns again and wifey promises to leave out the "cults."
- Vic wants to marry his sweetheart, but her father requires him to knit 50 sweaters in order to win her hand. Her father sends a private detective after him to make sure he knits them himself.
- Change-your-Manor is a nice little town where they go to bed at nine o'clock if they feel like it. The boys are fond of a little game of cards and it's the wee small hours for them until their wives break up the little game. Then the boys get busy and organize a Home Defense Unit, and drill at the clubhouse every night. The wives fall hard for this and the boys are free to go on with their game. But the wives get the first aid fever and proceed to go down to see our dear husbands drill. The boys make a great scramble to get uniforms and try to give the wives a little exhibition. Rastus is bringing up the refreshments when he sees the wives, drops the tray and rushes out. The kibosh has been put on the Home Defense Unit and the wives are wise. But Vic comes to the rescue of the husbands with a little ruse.
- Vic thinks if he buys his own cow to dissect he can beat the high cost of beef.
- After effeminate Reggie is picked on by the men at his club, a rough and ready ancestor appears to him and inspires him to become the ultimate he-man.
- Vic goes to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and while he is under the gas he has marvelous dreams that every woman he meets finds him irresistible.
- He is invited out but doesn't have any dress clothes, but scissors and ingenuity may help.
- Vic and his family live in a city flat and the heat becomes intolerable. He decides to move to the country and get cooled off, and he finds an agent who sells you a bungalow, a dollar down and a dollar every once in a while later. The agent shows him a bungalow on a map. "Swept by ocean breezes, no mosquitoes, and a short distance from the station." He rushes home with the map and his wife is so delighted she insists that they move at once. When the furniture is loaded on the van the family all climbs on, to see that nothing is broken, and the start is made. The trip from the flat to the place where they think the house is is full of funny incidents, and Vic resolves that the next time he buys a bungalow, he will look at the house, not the map.
- Vic is a "busy bee" at his office, and he is working so hard that his office staff becomes alarmed for fear he may overwork. They all impress this strongly upon him. Needless to say he laughs at them, for he never was sick a day in his life. On his arrival home, his wife greets him with great concern over the way he looks and insists upon sending for the doctor. She 'phones him, and he tells her to put Vic to bed at once, that he will be over with a nurse. She does. The fact that Vic has been put to bed sick becomes the talk of the neighborhood and each neighbor comes over to do their "bit." Each one suggests a different doctor, and "Mrs. Vic" has them all. One doctor says it's his heart, the other his chest, and another says it's his throat. However, after a final consultation, they all decide that he should be operated on for appendicitis. Vic is alarmed and wants to know what caused this, and the doctors tell him he does not get enough exercise. Vic announces that he will get some right away, and he ends up by "walloping" the life out of all the doctors.
- During the twenty-first birthday party Doris Page receives a letter from her uncle to the effect that unless she is married by midnight she will lose the title to his estate, so turning to Vic, who has proposed to her, agrees to marry him right away. Vic embraces her and announces that ten o'clock that night will be the hour for the happy event. Jim Norton, who is also a suitor for Doris' hand, starts out to try to prevent Doris' marriage to Vic. Vic and Doris go to get their marriage license, and then Vic goes home to prepare for the wedding. He takes a bath, and Norton and his friend steal all of his clothes. Vic is in a dilemma until his friend, Bill Morris, who is dressed in his evening clothes, calls. Vic pleads with him to lend him his dress clothes, as it is then ten o'clock. Morris agrees, and though much too small for Vic, he manages to squeeze into them. He leaves his friend dressed in a bathrobe. He runs for a car and drops his hat near a traffic signal and tries to pick it up; but as the trousers are too tight he finds it impossible to do so. Holding on to the traffic signal, and balancing himself, he finally gets the hat. Norton, who has followed, handcuffs him to the traffic signal, so when Vic gets up and starts to leave he has to take the traffic signal with him. He arrives at a thoroughfare and works the "stop and go" signal. One machine stops, and the occupant agrees to help him, so Vic gets into the motor car. Norton has also secured a marriage license, and tells Doris Vic is handcuffed, and the key which he exhibits is the only one which will open the handcuffs. He drops the key in a mail box, and Doris tries to get it. One of her rings gets caught, and it is impossible to get her hand free. It is now a quarter to twelve, and Norton offers to marry her, but she refuses. Vic, with the traffic sign, comes up in the motor car and sends for the minister who happens to be tongue-tied, and who manages to get them married before the necessary hour. The letter carrier arrives and frees Doris, who gets the key and releases Vic.
- Vic is discovered tinkering with his old Ford car that his wife has been trying to exchange for some time. She happens to fall upon an exchange ad which offers a motor boat in exchange for a car, anything but a Ford. She tells Vic it would be a good idea to disguise the car. Together, they make alterations and start off to get the boat. Vic and the family arrive at the dock and the deal is arranged. He takes the boat and gives up the car. From this time on the funny things that happen to Vic and his family and the other fellow with Vic's Ford keep up to the finish of the picture.
- Vic is a lover of fresh air and decides that the best way to get it is to go "camping." He manages to induce his wife to go along with him and take the kids. He also takes his nephew and two nieces. After equipping them with camping outfits, and also loading his Ford up with the necessary camping things, they make a start. The car looks like a moving circus, and the kids have the time of their young lives. Vic encounters many troubles en route to the camping place, the last one being the climbing of a mountain, which is very exciting and funny. He eventually arrives at a spot he thinks will do. The tent is put up and camping life is on in full blast. Everything would have been ideal if it was not for a "wood be" Indian who tries to scalp Vic. He nearly scares the daylight out of Vic, and only the arrival of an old hermit and the kids save him. They knock the spots out of the Indian and the hermit takes him off in his custody. By this time the nightfall is coming on and Vic and the family get in the sleeping bag to get into the arms of Morpheus. It had to pick out that night to rain, and rain it does as it never did before. Vic unfortunately built the trench around the tent the wrong way, and consequently the water runs in the tent instead of out. Added to this comes a gale which blows the tent away and they are all left standing in their "nighties." Vic makes them all get under the Ford, which he says is like a rich uncle - it always comes in handy. Moving Picture World, September 29, 1917
- Vic wants to win the hand of the daughter of an old army colonel. The colonel has laid down the stipulation that the man getting his daughter's hand must have a true military figure. Vic prepares to meet the father to pass examination and trusses and laces himself up to look like a West Pointer. Before the arrival of the old colonel to pass on Vic's figure, a rival for the daughter's hand inserts himself into the action, and a series of ludicrous mishaps and horse-play follow in rapid succession, and Vic is finally shown up.
- Vic hates water so much that he has to be blindfolded before he will take a bath. His wife is a regular mermaid. Vic's Uncle Jasbo left him his yacht, "The Fish Hound," with the proviso that he convert it into a submarine chaser, and in the event he captures or sinks a U Boat he is to receive the sum of $25,000.