Volume II: Filmography

FOILING FATHER'S FOES

(Falstaff)

November 29, 1915 (Monday)

Length: 1 reel (1,022 feet)

Character: Comedy

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Colin Campbell (Job Melick, the father; editor of the Cail County Journal), Louise Emerald Bates (Lucinda, his daughter, the foiler), Marshall Welch (a ward politician), Robert Whittier (an old-style politician)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, November 27, 1915:

"Lucinda, just home from college, finds Job Melick, her father, in a dangerous position. Job is editor of the country paper, and a reformer. He has published some cutting editorial remarks about two local grafting politicians, one a nominee for sheriff and the other a candidate for town treasurer. The politicians have recently called to beat him up. 'Never mind, father,' says the reassuring Lucinda. 'You take a week off, and I'll fix your foes.' Father retires, and Lucinda takes charge of the paper. Father's enemies learn that the editor is back on the job after his whipping. They call to remonstrate with him. They discover pitfalls on the stairs, boards fly out at them unexpectedly, and at last they are precipitated through a trap door and sent whizzing down an incline into the water. They are rescued by Lucinda, who demands that they retire from the political race in her favor. She ducks them until they agree, and both sign the declaration. Job's architect daughter is elected to both the offices at once, she receives two salaries, and father gives her plenty of flattering publicity in his paper."

REVIEW, The Bioscope, May 11, 1916:

"The editor of the Cail County Journal is bullied by the newly-appointed sheriff and treasurer and horsewhipped. The editor's daughter nominates herself for both offices on the Suffrage ticket, and being an architect fixes up the office so that the invaders are beaten, washed, and thrown into the river. This happens to the bullying candidates, and she secures their withdrawal in a very laughable fashion."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, November 27, 1915:

"A knock-about comedy number in which the daughter of an editor rigs up numerous traps and devices for punishing angry visitors at her father's office. She makes short work of two politicians, showering them with a hose and then dropping them through a trapdoor into the water beneath. The number is a laughable example of the rougher type of comedy."

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