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The Home Breakers
Also known as Other People’s Wives in the USA
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Walter Wright
Cast: Mack Swain [Ambrose], Chester Conklin [Walrus], Alice Davenport [Mrs. Ambrose], Dora Rodgers (Fontaine La Rue) [Mrs. Walrus]], George Summerville (Slim Summerville) [the janitor], Ollie Carlyle (Helen Carlyle) [the maid], Fred Fishback (Fred Hibbard) [the first policeman], Ted Edwards [the second policeman], [?] Minta Durfee?
The Keystone Film Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Produced by Mack Sennett. / Released 1 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Bank Story. [?] Completed or shipped? on 17 January 1915. The film was rereleased in the USA as Other People’s Wives by [?] W.H. Productions Company or Harry E. Aitken? in [?] 1918?
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A bank president in a small town bestows attentions and gifts upon the wife of his cashier. The cashier, meanwhile, is lavishing compliments and gifts upon the wife of the president. The deception on both sides is successfully perpetrated until the wives put in an appearance on the same day at their husbands’ place of business. A slight slip on the part of the janitor plunges everybody in disaster, and the married couples earnestly repent their folly.
Survival status: Print exists [8mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 August 2023.
References: Lahue-Kops p. 151; Lahue-Mack p. 298 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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