Caught with the Goods
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Mack Sennett
Cast: Fred Mace [a sleuth], Mack Sennett [a sleuth], Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon), William Bechtel [a vice committee member], Jack Dillon (John T. Dillon) [a vice committee member], Kate Toncray [a vice committee member]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by George Hennessy. / Released 25 December 1911; in a split-reel with A Mix-up in Rain Coats (1911). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The celebrated Biograph sleuths again almost catch the real criminals. However, they make a wholesale arrest and are self-satisfied. The vice committee engages their services in getting evidence against a certain gambling parlor. They, with their usual bungling, let the gamblers escape and arrest instead the entire vice committee, who, as a last resource, make the raid themselves, seizing the gambling paraphernalia. Hence, the sleuths, finding them in possession of the goods, arrest them as the gamblers.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 10 April 2020.
References: Pohle-Holmes p. ?; Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb.
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