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Too Many Girls
(1910) United States of America
B&W : One reel / [?] 839 or 950? feet
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
Cast: (unknown)
Defender Film Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 24 June 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on Staten Island, New York.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 25 June 1910, page ?] Nothing so rare as a day in June except a man at the country resort, which is the scene of action in our story. We see a bevy of beauteous maidens interrupted in their athletic pursuits by the unexpected arrival of IT in their midst. He is indeed IT and makes the most of the situation on the piazza and off; under the sun or in the calm cold rays of the moon. Our hero is the special object of the attentions of the stately blonde and the somewhat less stately brunette; and is the cause of such dissension between them that on each discovering that he is engaged to the other (sly fox), a bloody battle is fought under the shade of the sheltering oak with honors even, when enter IT with yet a stately third. The battle is declared off and all make common cause against the perfidious wretch. A wild chase across country ensues. A mad whirl of floating hair, whirling skirts and silken ankles-down the lane-over the gate-(five barred b’gosh), across the cow patch and into the lake, where IT is left by the fair deceived ones to repent at leisure.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 9 July 1910, page ?] A summer resort idyll, in which It, impersonating something purporting to be a man, becomes the object of the attention of a number of beauties who have been longing for male companionship. But after the perfidy of the wretch is discovered, they set upon him in a body, and drive him pell mell amid swishing skirts and well-displayed ankles across country to the lake, where he is immersed and left to soak while the deceived ones console each other and lay plans to obtain recompense from the next unfortunate man who strays their way.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 29 June 2023.
References: Balshofer-OneReel p. ? : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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