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The Joke on the Joker
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Mack Sennett

Cast: Fred Mace [the joker], Mabel Normand [the joker’s wife], Joseph Graybill [the wife’s admirer]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From the story “The Tables Turned” by Julian La Mothe. / Released 4 January 1912; in a split-reel with Who Got the Reward? (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A flypaper salesman, who is everlastingly playing jokes upon his friends, becomes such a pest that a couple of his victims vow to turn the tables on him. While off on a business trip, they cause to be published an article to the effect that he had met with a fatal accident. The article was given such credence that his wife, believing herself a widow, was about to marry again, when he reappeared.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 September 2023.

References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.

 
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