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Father’s Temper
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 600 feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: James Levering [John Bull], Julia Calhoun [Mrs. Bull], Raymond McKee [Ben Bull], Frances Ne Moyer [Bess Bull], Jerold Hevener [Joe Judd]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Epes W. Sargent. / Released 28 February 1914; in a split-reel with Coon Town Suffragettes (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Lubin promotional materials] John Bull has a temper. He’s not a large man, but has a temper that would fit a giant. He breaks up housekeeping on the slightest provocation and keeps the family in a state of fear. Bess, his daughter, is engaged to Joe Judd, and Joe writes that he is coming to town to ask her father for her hand. When father is approached on the matter he excels his best previous efforts. That doesn’t bother Joe any, and he decides to cure the old man. The next day Joe brings a gang of workmen down to the house while his pa is at the office, and when father arrives so many queer things happen to him that he thinks he is going mad. When Joe again asks for the girl, father, now a beaten man, gives his consent.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 February 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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