Volume II: Filmography

GETTING THE GARDENER'S GOAT

British release title: HOW RILEY WON

(Falstaff)

July 30, 1915 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (941 feet)

Character: Comedy

Directors: Arthur Ellery and Ernest C. Warde

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Riley Chamberlin (Riley, the gardener), Lorraine Huling (Eulalie), Bert Delaney (Rawson, "the choice blossom"), Leo Post (Tom Bridge, "the weed"), Eldean Steuart

ADVERTISEMENT, The Moving Picture World_, July 31, 1915:

"The first impression you will get of this comedy is its novelty, because for once it's an old fellow who plays the pranks on a young victim; and you know that's a reversal of form. The most alluring bits of summer setting show off this little gem in all its brilliance. A consistently good offering."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, July 24, 1915:

"Riley, the old gardener, had watched Eulalie grow up, and now he took a serious interest in her lovers. Soon he made up his mind that Tom Bridge, the rich young suitor, under his attractive manners was only 'a weed.' But Joe Rawson, a youthful lawyer, plucky and hard-working, he decided was 'the choice blossom' who must be given a chance. Thus, like the experienced old horticulturist that he was, Riley began to put 'the weed' to test. Bridge met with one tribulation after another. When he led Eulalie to a hammock, it invariably broke down. Once he sat on a freshly painted bench - which mishap revealed that young man's unsuspected reserve vocabulary. He took the girl for a boat ride, and failed to perceive that the plug was out until they were in deep water. It was a matter of swim or sink - and the young millionaire did not cut an altogether heroic figure. These various misfortunes conspired to display Bridge at his worst - and Eulalie promptly gave him his dismissal. Then she married Joe Rawson. Riley is happy. Why shouldn't such a successful gardener be happy?"

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, July 24, 1915:

"This offering is in line with its predecessors of the Falstaff comedy. It is a deliciously rare little notion, in which Riley Chamberlin runs Peck's Bad Boy one better. It is unusual to see an old character play all the pranks on a young man, instead of the time-worn reversal. Riley does it to undue one of Lorraine Huling's suitors who incurred his ill will, and the old fellow succeeds with flying colors. A feature of the comedy is the beautiful locations of the story, and the charming work of Miss Huling."

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