A sweet young thing is celebrating her sixteenth birthday. The hero trims the villain and sends him away roaring for vengeance. The villain is head of a gang of crooks. At the villain’s order, the butler, who is his lieutenant, steals the birthday cake. The villain determines to put a bomb in the cake and he chooses a simple-minded youth from a street crowd. The youth objects and doesn’t see why they should pick on him. However he disguises as the crooked butler and takes the cake back to the party. The gangsters follow. The bomb is in his pocket and he stalls on planting it as long as he can. Then, still under pressure, he inserts in the cake what he believes to be the bomb. The results bring about a comic situation. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: No rating yet | |
Released: | January 29, 1917 | |
Genres: | Comedy Short | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | Fox Film Corporation | |
Cast: | Hank Mann Frances Burnham Gordon Mullin | |
Crew: | Charley Chase | |
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