Temperance Town (1916)
Mink Jones of Jonesville, is the lord high executioner and everything else. When Booze and Souse send Jack Worth, salesman for demon rum to Jonesville, he is met at the depot by Mink Jones and his daughter. Mink also in his capacity as expressman, receives a consignment of hymn books for the parson, and liquor for the hotel bar. Kneeland Pray and Doc Sawyer, the village prescription writer resolve to institute a vice committee to make Jonesville a temperance town, and incidentally make the village drug store an oasis in a desert of dryness. By mistake the case of liquor goes to the parson, and the box of hymn books goes to the village bar keeper. The committee call on the parson just as he is opening the box, and they are shocked to find the parson had received whiskey. They tell him they will say nothing of his private bar if he will join them in the temperance crusade. Doc Sawyer and Kneeland Pray do a thriving business. Mink Jones buys the village tavern because of the "dry" wave, and brings on some city girls to art as waitresses. These damsels fall in love with Doc Sawyer and the druggist, Kneeland Pray. While gamboling on beach, Mink Jones takes a moving picture of the doctor and the druggist with the maidens. Angered, because the lid has been tilted in some unknown way, the druggist and the doctor enlist the aid of the parson and raid Mink Jones' hotel in search of a "blind pig." The "blind pig" is discovered, and Mink Jones is arrested and heavily fined. However, he throws upon a screen moving pictures of the vice committee and the girls, and his fine is immediately remitted.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Thomas N. Heffron | Director |
| Charles Hale Hoyt | Writer |
| Gilson Willets | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Otis Harlan | |
| Grace Darmond | |
| John Charles | |
| James Bradbury Sr. |
