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Orders is Orders
(1916) United States of America
B&W : [?] One or Two? reels
Directed by Francis Ford
Cast: Ernest Shields [Joe, the team captain], Mina Cunard [Grace, the mayor’s daughter], Victor Goss [the quarterback], Ed Clark (Edward Clark) [the police captain], Mark Fenton [the mayor]
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Victor]. / Scenario by Francis Ford. / Released 15 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? It is the day before the big football game and the air is charged with tenseness. The boys, overflowing with enthusiasm, parade up and down the streets singing and shouting in their exuberance. Joe is captain of the Yale team and he and Mina, the mayor’s daughter, are very fond of each other. During the celebration the quarterback begins to get too noisy and is accordingly taken to jail. The captain, as a deterrent to other offenders, gives him thirty days in jail. Of course when the news gets out there is a mighty uproar in college, for with the quarterback missing, they will have small chance to win the game the next day. The wisest heads on the ground get together planning the release of their quarterback, but all in vain, and it remains for the wise captain, Joe, to get a way out of their difficulties. Spurred on by Grace, he works out a little scheme and it proves successful. He buys a barber pole and goes down the street very conspicuously. But he had received a receipt for the pole and while he is arrested many times, the receipt always results in his release. Finally the police captain gets tired of seeing Joe continually brought in and issues a general order to all patrolmen that they must not arrest a student carrying barber poles under penalty of losing their jobs. They learn this at the college and the boys go wild. Scattering over town, they proceed to gather in the barber poles and the result of their haul looks like a wood pile. Of course, the cops see them carrying off the poles, but are in fear of the order, so allow them to escape. Next morning things begin to hum. The police captain’s office overflows with barbers, and each one is filled with rage. The authorities are impotent, however, and the mayor informs the captain that unless the poles are restored by noon there will be a new face in his office. The college boys now come forward with their proposition. If the quarterback is liberated they agree to return all the poles in good shape, and the police are forced to agree to this. So the game is saved and while Joe and Grace watch the game with interest, her father decides he is missing a good game and joins them. Grace is so glad to see him that she kisses him and as he turns away she offers her lips to Joe, telling him that he is next.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 April 2024.
References: ClasIm-224 p. 43 : Website-IMDb.
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