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Turn Him Out
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Charles H. France
Cast: John Lancaster [Nicodemus Nobbs], Palmer Bowman [Mackintosh Moke], Lillian Brown Leighton (Lillian Leighton) [Mrs. Mackintosh Moke], Thomas Flynn (Tommy Flynn) [Eglantine Roseleaf]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Thomas H. William. / Released 18 March 1913; in a split-reel with Pekin, China (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Nicodemus Nobbs, a toy vendor, is recognized by Susan, the bonny servant of Mrs. Mackintosh Moke, through the window of the house as she is leaning out discussing the weather with the painter. Just at the moment Mrs. Moke, newlywed and timorous, comes hurrying terror stricken up the street pursued by Eglantine Roseleaf, a dandified “masher.” Although the door is slammed in the face of this peripatetic nuisance, he lingers lovingly about and finally spies the ladder of the painter and climbs it. Susan meets the bold invader, but succumbing to a bribe, hides him in a closet. She then cleverly locks him up and reports to her mistress. She calls in Nobbs and tells him he must do some fighting for her. Moke, the master of the house, happens home unexpectedly and is promptly “fired” by the belligerent Nobbs before he has time to make explanations. While Nobbs is telling his adventure, Roseleaf manages to pick the lock and gets out just as the dilapidated Moke gets back in his own house. As neither knows the other that starts a new lot of comedy complications and eventually Moke is again cast out of house and home. He tries the original method of getting sent home in a trunk, but Nobbs is on the job and he gets a horrible jolting and is carried away in the trunk. It furnishes a series of laughter producing complications until matters are righted and Roseleaf is properly chastised.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 October 2023.
References: Lahue-Selig p. 141 : Website-IMDb.
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