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Buy Wool
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Charles Murray [?] [Pa]?, Louise Orth [Pa’s daughter], Edward Dillon [?] [William, Pa’s secretary]?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 29 January 1914; in a split-reel with Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Pa’s secretary loves daughter but daren’t tell pa, so daughter comes down to the office to see pa, but to lunch with William. “Good gracious, dear,” says Ma one morning to Pa, “you must buy some woolen underwear.” So absent-minded Pa makes a note on his cuff, “Buy wool underclothes.” William thinks he has a tip and makes a plunge in wool. There is quite a flutter for a while. Then Pa’s wealthy friends take the tip, too, and wool goes soaring right up.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 14 February 1914, page ?] This half-reel makes quite an amusing yarn. The secretary, seeing the words “Buy Wool” on his employer’s cuff, plunges heavily. The words really referred to woolen underwear, but the stock rises just the same and the young man is accordingly happy. A good idea in this.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 April 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb.
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