A Substitute for Pants (1914)
Billy and Sammy, rivals in politics, are also rivals in love. Billy, however, is favored by Kitty, the object of their affections. Coming upon his rival in close confab with Kitty, Sammy attempts to butt in. A lusty kick delivered by Billy, shoots Sammy out into the road. The man collides with Carr, Kitty's father. Learning the cause of the trouble, Carr chases Billy. The ranch owner orders his daughter to marry Sammy. The girl has a mind of her own, however, and flatly refuses. A compromise is affected when Kitty promises to marry the man who wins out at the coming election. Billy, candidate on the suffragette ticket, is favored by the ladies. Sammy, on the Bull Goose ticket, realizes Billy's popularity with the fair sex is liable to mean defeat for himself. The man thereupon plots to kidnap his rival on the morning of the election. His scheme is successful. Billy is spirited away and after his trousers are appropriated, is locked in a barn five miles from town. Kitty has witnessed the kidnapping. Learning of her sweetheart's predicament, she throws her divided riding-skirt into the barn and bids him don them and dash back before the polls open. Clad in the divided skirts. Billy mounts Kitty's horse and dashes for the town while his sweetheart hides in the hay. In the midst of a speech denouncing his rival, Sammy sees Billy coming. The polls are about to open when Billy, mounting the veranda of the building, boldly makes a bid for the feminine vote. In fact, he announces that his sympathies are so strong for the suffragettes that he has donned split skirts. Billy is elected by a overwhelming majority. After donning trousers, the boy returns to the barn and throws the skirt toward the pile of hay in which Kitty is concealed. Meanwhile, bowed down with woe, Sammy endeavors to drown his sorrow in the flowing bowl.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Marshall Neilan | Director |
| Marshall Neilan | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| John E. Brennan | |
| Ruth Roland | |
| Marshall Neilan | |
| Lloyd Hamilton |
