Suspicious Characters (1915)
So tired have two burglars become of psychological breakfasts and "make-believe" dinners that they gather up their yeggman's tools and start off to rob a pantry. Of epicurean tastes, despite the fact that Jim and Bill have been progressing well on the forty-day fast, they hold up a policeman and ask him where the richest man in the neighborhood lives, so as to find the best-stocked larder. Up the street they go, with the policeman following them, first with his eyes, and then in person. His suspicions rapidly rising within him, the policeman approaches the burglars, who are stationed at a window of the palatial place, watching the man of the house put the family jewels into the safe. He looks them over closely as they pull their domino masks down. He shakes his head wisely and moves on, leaving the famished burglars standing at the window with a saw, an axe, drills, "soup" and the other requisites. The lady of the house pulls the curtains down in their faces and they brand the act as evidence of ill manners. Little Rachel has stepped into the open safe and her father has carelessly closed the steel door. Jim and Bill jimmy their way into the place and immediately begin with the safe. Bill tells the alert policeman that they are piano tuners when the bluecoat follows them into the house and asks them what they are doing, as they are in the act of drilling the strong box. Bill plays an air on the piano, and even the safe dances to the alluring strains. The man of the house, who is seen in the corridor executing a little terpsichorean stunt with his wife while the music continues, realizes that there are burglars in the house and rushes downstairs with a revolver. Jim and Bill hold up their hands and the safe at the command. Meanwhile, the policeman is trying to convince himself that the men are burglars. Jim and Bill roll the safe into the pantry, where they find some pies. They are unusually soft, and the cop and the man of the house make good targets for them, when they attempt to follow the burglars into the pantry. While the policeman stands outside the pantry door, suspecting mischief, the burglars blow the safe and Rachel steps out. The burglars are showered with thanks and money, but are immediately arrested by the policeman, who was knocked over by the pantry door and walked on by the entire party for several minutes before being discovered and rescued. At the station, the burglars walk through the bars and grab the policeman, and after hauling him through into a cell, leave the jail in high spirits.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Charles Ransom | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Wadsworth | |
| Arthur Housman | |
| William Bechtel | |
| Cora Williams |
