Volume II: Filmography

REAL ESTATERS

(Falstaff)

June 12, 1916 (Monday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Cast: "Oscar and Conrad:" Claude Cooper (Oscar) and Frank E. McNish (Conrad); Louise Emerald Bates (Conrad's wife), Morgan Jones (real estate agent)

Location: Jacksonville, Florida.

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, June 10, 1916:

"Oscar and Conrad had no intention of becoming Real Estaters. But a bright agent saw them, and before they knew it they were owners of adjoining lots in 'Beautiful Seaweed.' When the buyers found that Seaweed was twenty-five miles from Flop Siding, the nearest railroad point, they objected. The agent drove them to the land in a racing auto within the time limit. Then he showed them their lots, which were out beyond low water mark. There was running water, all right, for water ran all over the place. Naturally Oscar and Conrad thrashed the agent. Conrad's wife made the acquaintance of the real estate sharp, and induced him to go sailing with her. The boat was conveniently wrecked off Seaweed. She aided the agent to shore. She landed him on Conrad's 'lot,' but the owner was there and threatened to have him arrested as a trespasser. The like fate met them at Oscar's land. At the suggestion of the woman he bought back the property at a substantial advance. Then for the first time the sharper realized that he had been defeated at his own game, and by a woman at that."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, June 24, 1916:

"Oscar and Conrad buy two lots, with running water. They find they have purchased a section of the ocean beach and have considerable fun with the agent who sold them. This is just a whimsical idea and gets a fair amount of amusement."

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