Cupid Through Padlocks

19121912
13m

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5.1/10

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Pauline Bush, J. Warren Kerrigan, Marshall Neilan, George Periolat, and Jessalyn Van Trump in Cupid Through Padlocks (1912)

Short Comedy

Old Bob Langfall guarded two pretty daughters carefully. When Jim and Charley Bradley met them by accident, old Bob showed them the butt of his gun and bade them adieu. But Jim and Charley h... Read allOld Bob Langfall guarded two pretty daughters carefully. When Jim and Charley Bradley met them by accident, old Bob showed them the butt of his gun and bade them adieu. But Jim and Charley had a widowed mother, and old Bob was a widower.Old Bob Langfall guarded two pretty daughters carefully. When Jim and Charley Bradley met them by accident, old Bob showed them the butt of his gun and bade them adieu. But Jim and Charley had a widowed mother, and old Bob was a widower.

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5.1/10

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1,451,491

233,725

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- Allan Dwan
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5/10

Love Laughs at Locksmiths

When the father of Pauline Bush and Jessalyn Tromp forbid them to associate with cowboys, would-be suitors J. Walter Kerrigan and Marshall Neilan recruit a widow to sweet-talk the old cuss.

This is one of many hard-to-find short silent films you can look at on the Eye Institute site on Youtube. Its points of interest are largely technical, but it's worth a viewing for fans of very old movies. It's one of the early short western films directed by Alan Dwan at the start of his half century wielding the megaphone. Although the screen writing is pretty sparse, Mr. Dwan already shows a good eye for finding an interesting site and manner of shooting it, despite the vast number of movies he was expected to send back to be edited, printed and distributed.

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