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1916FalstaffOne reelWestern

Where Wives Win

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The story

“The young mechanic thought it was rather hard to dance at night after working all day. The young man sighed, and he envied his prospective father-in-law when that individual sneaked out to a nearby saloon. The wife went around but was headed off. All this time the suitor had been dancing, but he had reached his limit. He fell asleep and had a terrible dream. His tumble from the sofa brought the women in from the kitchen just as the old man strolled in. The two consoled themselves. ‘Cheer up. It might have been worse,’ they said as they settled down.”

Summary from Reel Life · 3 June 1916

What the papers said

1 review

“This is an unusually good comedy number wherein the daughter of a truck driver receives her lover in her father’s home and makes him dance so much that while she helps her mother with the dishes he falls asleep and dreams that he is a Western cowboy. He rides downstairs on a white horse and sees his sweetheart’s mother haul her father out of a saloon, lasso him and give him a run home while she rides the horse.”

The Moving Picture World · 24 June 1916

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Cast and crew

Cast
Carey L. Hastings as mother
John Beck as her sweetheart
Joseph Phillips as father
Irene Farrington as daughter
Eugene Moore
Writer
Lloyd F. Lonergan

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More about this film

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, “Where Wives Win”. thanhouser.org/films/where-wives-win/

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