No Place Like Jail (1916)
Michael Finnigan is locked up for attacking Patrick Brogan of the police force. Mike has been making love to Brogan's girl. Finnigan writes a note asking his wife to secure his freedom. The turnkey passes it on to Brogan, who is glad to deliver it as he wants to reveal to Mrs. Finnigan her husband's disloyalty. Mrs. Finnigan, reading the note, decides that her hubby is better off where he is and she shows it by tenderly embracing Brogan, who at first forcibly resists her, but is soon conquered. Finnigan makes his escape from the jail, clothed in a suit of stripes. Going home by the way of the woods he runs across a clergyman asleep under a tree. He relieves the sleeping man of his attire, leaving the parson in his B.V.D.'s. Arriving home Finnigan sits down on the back steps to regain his wind after his fast run and to adjust the stolen trousers which were much too long. Mrs. Finnigan, sitting by the window on Brogan's lap, spies him. She is perplexed as to what she should do, but an idea comes to her and she orders Brogan to carry it out. He obeys and as Mike enters the kitchen he lets go a demolishing blow, with his club on the top of Finnigan's head. He falls to the floor, Brogan picks him up and places him over his shoulder. Before leaving, Mrs. Finnigan proposes an elopement with Brogan, as soon as he has returned the "sleeping" husband to the cooler. Finnigan scales the jail-yard wall, proceeds home, and discovers Brogan in citizens clothes, with a suitcase at his side. A pretty nurse girl passing by flirts with Brogan. He follows. Finnigan vacates his hiding place, dodges around Brogan and the girl unnoticed and makes off with a suit of clothes from Brogan's suitcase. Mrs. Finnigan is leaving by the front way. While hunting the house over for his wife he discovers the note left by her. It proclaims that she has eloped with a handsome, noble protector and that she has become tired of living with a jail-bird. He writes his answer on the opposite side, announcing his suicide. Mrs. Finnigan sees Brogan with the nurse and goes back home to destroy the note she left. Brogan finds Finnigan trying to drown himself and places him under arrest. The judge disgusted with seeing Finnigan again orders him to be kicked out. The force carry out the judge's wishes, at the same time returning to Finnigan the suit that he had on when he made his first visit. He then proceeds homeward. When Mrs. Finnigan discovers the note she goes down to the lake and finds only the clothes he left on the bank and returns home again, weeping bitterly. She darkens up the house, lights a few candles, drapes her supposed dead husband's picture in mourning and invites a few neighbors in, who really sympathize with her. Finnigan enters the house unnoticed. He takes an old sheet and places it over his head, quietly walks down the front stairs and into the parlor among the mourners. They rush from the house. His wife crouches up in the corner of the room terrified, as he gradually approaches nearer. He taunts her and makes her promise never to marry again, then removes the sheet, explains it all to her and then rushes into her outstretched arms.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Edwin McKim | Director |
| Edwin McKim | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Davy Don | |
| Patsy De Forest |
