Volume II: Filmography

A CLEVER COLLIE'S COMEBACK

British release title: SHEP'S RETURN

(Falstaff)

February 1, 1916 (Tuesday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Frances Keyes (wife), George Marlo (husband), Mattie Keene (Mandy), Lady (collie)

Note: 1. The title was listed erroneously as A Clever Collie's Coming Back in The Moving Picture World (issue of February 5, 1916, for example). 2. Although the British release title for this film was Shep's Return, the collie featured was Lady, not Shep.

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, January 29, 1916:

"A clever collie, whose home always has been a city apartment, objects strenuously to the family moving to the country. He tells the other dogs that he is going to queer the new home with his owner. The family moves and finds that it has taken a haunted house. One night Mandy, the old colored servant, wakes everybody, screaming. She declares a ghost has pulled all the bedclothes off her, and another ghost has blown out the light. Her master and mistress laugh at her at first. But when the candle goes out in the hand of the head of the house, and when the baby's carriage runs away all of itself, and when a beefsteak turned into a pair of corsets - well, the next day the family moves back to the city. Then the clever collie tells the other dogs all about it. And mysteries too deep for humans are explained."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, February 12, 1916:

"A comedy subject in which a collie dog is featured. The young married couple move to the country, where the discontented dog performed so many stunts at night that they fear ghosts and move back. The dog is well trained. The number will perhaps have special appeal to children."

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