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The Man with the Weak Heart
(1910) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / © 22 March 1910 by [?] Thomas A. Edison or Edison Manufacturing Company? Released 22 March 1910; in a split-reel with A Western Romance (1910). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
[?] Drama?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? It begins in the doctor’s office, where our hero is told that his heart is very weak and that he must handle himself with great care, avoiding any physical exertion or violent exercise. He goes mournfully away, shaking his head at the thought of the uneventful life he must henceforth lead. But on his way home he passes a group of men who have been trying to get a big cake of ice into a building. It has been too much for four of them, and he becomes impatient as he watches their efforts. Pushing them aside he seizes the tongs in his left hand, raises the two hundred pounds with apparent ease and slowly carries the ice to the door. He has hardly left this locality when he runs into a “tough bunch” from the lower part of town, and for having accidentally jostled one of them is offered a thrashing by the crowd. Quite forgetting the doctor’s orders, he sails in, and in short time knocks them all three out, and walks triumphantly over their prostrate bodies. By this time he is quite convinced that his heart is really very weak and that any heavy work would probably be fatal. Consequently, when he finds a street car off the track and about twenty people unable to lift it back he becomes very impatient and. picking up the end of the car by himself, swings it easily into place. On his way home he passes a building in the course of construction. A huge stone which has gotten beyond the control of the workmen drops upon him and crushes him flat to the ground, but, mindful of the doctor’s orders not to exert himself, he easily lifts the five hundred pounds and holds it out at arm’s length above his head, while the workmen bow in awe-stricken admiration of his prodigious strength. Then he goes home. Mindful of the dangers of exertion, he dare not take the baby when his wife holds her up, and the picture closes with a scene showing the whole family attendant upon his every wish and caring for him with all the solicitude which his precarious condition certainly demands.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 December 2024.
Reference: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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