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Strike One
(1917) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Craig Hutchinson
Cast: Billy Mason [Baseball Bill], Dave Morris [Dave Goodwynd], Gladys Tennyson [Gladys Comoverhere], Charles Cook [John Comoverhere], Charles Dorian [B.U. Tinn], Rube Miller [Setemup Joe]
Nestor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by C.B. Hoadley, from a screen story by Craig Hutchinson. / © 9 November 1917 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. Released 19 November 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A film in the ‘Baseball Bill’ series.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 1 December 1917, page ?] Dave had a multiple cylinder, air heated, garlic driven, explosive system which waited only for a spark to start a cyclone. Gladys, a beautiful young girl, turned on the switch when she gave him a poison flower. That opened Dave’s throttle wide and released a series of sneezes which would have made that little White Sox-Giant affair look like a ping-pong knitting party. You see, Dave was only a flirt, whereas Dad thought he was a capitalist with much goods. All he had was the hay fever. Everything went before that sneeze; Gladys, Gladys’ skirt, Gladys’ young man, Gladys’ father, the pins on the alley, and finally it explodes a bomb and blows Dave himself up.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 December 2024.
References: Edelman-Baseball p. 19 : Website-IMDb.
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