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1916MutualOne reelComedy

Fare, Lady

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

“Until he fell in love, Conductor No. 786 was quite a model employee. Thereafter, every time he passed a real estate office he stopped the car right in the middle of the block to search the displays for advertised houses for sale. Once he let a whole family ride three miles on one fare. Then he forgot to stop the car so Fatty could get on and Fatty had to chase the car ten blocks before he caught up with it. But one day, the conductor’s bride-to-be insisted that he quit ringing up fares and become a lawless desperado in order to satisfy her romantic novel-reading disposition. And the conductor did, with the result that he fell into a nest of adventures, near arrest, narrow escapes from minions of the law and of posse’s noose.”

Summary from The Moving Picture World · 9 September 1916

What the papers said

1 review

“An excellent comedy, this number shows how a street car conductor plays burglar to please the fancy of a young lady with whom he has fallen in love. To prove the truth of his assertions that he has in his time committed blood-curling crimes he has his partner play victim while he robs his own apartment. The police interfere with his fun, and the young lady is disillusioned.”

The Moving Picture World · 2 September 1916

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Cast and crew

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Riley Chamberlin as Conductor 786

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More about this film

Bowers’ notes
  1. This was a left-over film, released on the Mutual Program, and made before Thanhouser was affiliated with the Pathé Exchange, Inc. 2. The comma in the title was omitted in several schedules and notices.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Fare, Lady”. thanhouser.org/films/fare-lady/

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