Volume II: Filmography

A CUNNING CANAL-BOAT CUPID

(Falstaff)

November 18, 1915 (Thursday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Winifred Lane (Gladys, the girl), Claude Cooper (Tom Flint, her miserly cousin), Arthur Cunningham (Arthur, the cook)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, November 20, 1915:

"Gladys' erratic uncle leaves her a fortune, provided she will marry her second cousin, Tom Flint. Flint is a crabbed old miser - besides, the girl already is betrothed to the young man of her choice. But it is marry Flint - or surrender her share in her uncle's will to the cousin whom, from reputation, she detests. Old Arthur, the cook on Gladys' father's canal boat, determines to play Cupid. He disguises himself as a large, ill-natured woman and palms himself off as Gladys to his would-be fiancé, who calls at the canal boat. Arthur in disguise takes Flint out rowing. The suitor falls into a coal chute, and later he pitches overboard. All in all, the visitor has an awful day of it. When the executor of the estate, as soon as Flint has been brought to on the canal boat, asks him if he will marry his cousin, Flint, despite his love of money, bellows, 'No!' Since the girl has not declined, the fortune reverts entirely to her. She marries the man she loves. Arthur is richly rewarded for his services."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, November 20, 1915:

"An amusing story in which the canal boat captain's daughter inherits a fortune if she marries her elderly cousin. The cook on the canal boat masquerades as the girl and gives the suitor such a series of unpleasant happenings that he gladly renounces the girl's hand. This has some good humor in it and is well presented."

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