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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Widowers Three
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Robert Goodman?
Cast: [?] Francis Ford?
G. Méliès production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 2 May 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Western.
Synopsis: [From Méliès promotional materials] Three young college graduates spend their vacation on a ranch, where they meet and fall in love with three cowgirls. The boys’ fathers, angry at the prospect of their sons marrying, hasten to prevent any such event. The fathers are widowers and themselves succumb to the charms of the prettier-than-they-had-expected girls. Fathers and sons become rivals for the hearts of the young ladies. It is a case of self-made men against know-it-all college chaps, with results that are quite as amusing as surprising. // [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Tom, Dick and Harry, just graduated from college, “touch” their fathers for enough to enjoy a last vacation in the mountains. The advertisement of “The Misses Jones’ Star Ranch” takes them to Bear Creek, California, where, however, the Misses Jones prove to be too elderly to be of interest. But three nieces of the Misses Jones turn out to be winners and the boys shine up to these. When Tom’s father receives a telegram reading, “Dick, Harry and I are going to marry the three cowgirls I wrote you about. Send me another hundred. Your son, Tom,” he gets into communication with the other two fathers, and they decide to go and stop the affair. Their anger is great. But the fathers are widowers, widowers three, and when they espy the three charming girls, their anger at the boys turns to jealousy. The idea that three such winsome girls should marry penniless boys! Huh! Why not marry them themselves? But the Misses Jones rather admire the elderly gentlemen and contrive to snare them into their own matrimonial bonds. But these hard-headed businessmen are wise, and by a clever ruse gain the old maids’ consent to marry their nieces when the boys do not show up “at the church.” Why do the boys not appear at the church? The fathers can best answer.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 November 2022.
References: Thompson-Star p. 231 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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