Court House Crooks

1915
22m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

129

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Mack Sennett in Toplitsky and Company (1913)

Short Comedy

A judge and his frivolous wife are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. The wife insists he buy her a gift. He goes out and buys her a necklace and pendant, which he promptly loses.... Read allA judge and his frivolous wife are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. The wife insists he buy her a gift. He goes out and buys her a necklace and pendant, which he promptly loses. Its finder is the judge's district attorney, who thinks he can give it to the girl he is ... Read allA judge and his frivolous wife are celebrating their second wedding anniversary. The wife insists he buy her a gift. He goes out and buys her a necklace and pendant, which he promptly loses. Its finder is the judge's district attorney, who thinks he can give it to the girl he is trying to woo, namely the judge's wife. An unemployed young man happens to have what was t... Read all

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- Ford Sterling
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Ford Sterling

The District Attorney

Minta Durfee

The Judge's Wife

Harold Lloyd

Young Man Jobless Youth
(uncredited)

Charles Arling

Judge Grey

Doris Baker

Young Man's Little Sister
(as Baby Doris Baker)

Josh Binney

Juror in Front Row
(as Harold J. Binney)

Dan Albert

Soda Jerk
(uncredited)

Billie Bennett

Young Man's Mother
(uncredited)

Patrick Kelly

Juror in Front Row
(uncredited)

Jack Mintz

Juror in Second Row with Mustache
(uncredited)

Edward Nolan

Lead Policeman
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Reissued by W.H. Productions in 1919 as "His Blighted Career."

Goofs
The message reflected into the courtroom by the little sister appears frontwards, just as it is written on the mirror (i.e., not a mirror image). To create the effect seen in the film, the little sister should have inverted the message when writing it on the mirror, thereby allowing it to be reflected properly.

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Featured in American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)

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8/10

Clever and better than the average Keystone comedy.

The plot to this Keystone comedy is a little more complicated and complex than usual. Instead of people kicking each other in the butt or bonking each other on the head, this one has a plot that is timeless. The District Attorney (Ford Sterling) is fooling around with a judge's wife (Minta Durfee). However, an innocent young man (Harold Lloyd) just happens to walk into the middle of this. He has no idea WHAT is going on and is assumed by the Judge to be a criminal. Can the innocent man somehow extricate himself or will be go to prison for the DA's actions?

The film is not full of huge laughs but funny situations instead. It is fun, entertaining and much more interesting than usual. The only problem I saw, and it's a minor one, is that the message flashed on the mirror was BACKWARDS--or at least it should have been. Think about it....

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