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Mother’s Baby Boy
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Epes W. Sargent (E.W. Sargent)
Cast: Eva Bell [Mother Pilkins], Babe Hardy (Oliver Hardy) [Percival Pilkins], Nellie Farron [Nell Haldane], Don Ferrando [Tom Brown], Burt Bucher [Bill Green], Roy Byron (Royal Byron) [Sport Regan]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 24 November 1914; in a split-reel with He Wanted Chicken (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? It must be admitted that Percival Pilkins is not an ideal hero, in fact he is quite the reverse. He is mother’s petted, pampered darling. Bill Green and Tom Brown are a pair of rude fellows who rather resent the fact that Percy interrupts their wooing of Nell Haldane, and they run Percy clear back to his boarding house. Percy writes to his mother that he just knows his vacation is going to be spoiled by these uncouth boys and mother promptly telegraphs that she is coming along to protect him. Percy shows the wire to Bill and Tom, a dreadful warning, but they don’t seem to care. Instead they lay in wait for him again, but Nell sees the hold-up and flies to Percy’s rescue. She is a little late, because he gets home before she can catch him and there is his mother on the porch. Mother isn’t a little bit husky; she is a tiny little woman and Tom is rude enough to soak Percy one right under his mother’s nose. Poor Tom didn’t know that mother had brought along a prizefighter to act as Percy’s bodyguard, but she did, and Tom and Bill are tossed into the river. Unfortunately Percy also falls in and takes mother along with him, which is not as things should be.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 May 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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