Their Awful Predicament (1916)
Mr. Grey and his niece invite their cousin Mary and her sweetheart to visit them. Billie phones her sweetheart Eddie to stop at the drugstore for a package, telling him she will meet him at the depot. Jim Slick, a crook, steals a necklace from a large jewelry firm and is being closely followed. He manages to get into the drug store at the same time Eddie is making his purchase and adroitly exchanges the two packages. The police overtake Slick, but as they don't find the jewels on him, they set him free. Meanwhile, Eddie meets Billie and hands her the package, which she places in her grip. The officers search Eddie but cannot find the jewels. When Billie opens the package she finds the jewels and thinks that Eddie is a thief. One of Slick's pals is keeping close to them, so as to get the jewels. Grey's butler, who is working with Slick, makes the excuse that his mother is so ill that he cannot get away. He sends one of Slick's pals to take his place. Eddie and Billie arrive at uncle's, but Billie will allow no one to touch her grip, which Ethel thinks rather queer. A detective, Potts, has been engaged on the case and informs Grey that the crook is in his home. Potts talks with the crook who he thinks is the butler. Billie and Eddie discover a notice of the robbery in the paper, and Billie faints. The detective is watching, and Eddie leaves hurriedly. Billie has hidden the jewels in her waist, but takes them out just as Eddie happens to look through the curtains. Eddie, seeing her suspicious actions, thinks that she has stolen them; he rushes upstairs. Meanwhile, Potts is searching her room, but hearing Eddie coming, hides in the closet. Billie comes on and hides the jewels in the grip again. Then she thinks better of it and hides them in her waist, which Potts sees through the keyhole. Billie seeks out Eddie and tells him that she thinks there is a detective in the house and says the best thing for the thief to do is to return the jewels to the firm. Both are greatly worried. The crook and Potts are examining Billie's grip and the crook-butler finds the jewels, which Billie has again hid in the grip, and puts them into his pocket. But when Billie wraps the jewels in some paper and gives them to the butler-crook to take to the jewelers, Potts then puts the handcuffs on Billie, and when Eddie tries to fight him, he puts the other handcuff on Eddie, in which plight they are discovered by uncle and Ethel. Each accuses himself to save the other. But a confederate of Potts had been keeping his eye on the crook-butler, and as he leaves the house grabs him. Explanations follow and Billie and Eddie become engaged.
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GenresComedy
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Horace Davey | Director |
| Al Christie | Writer |
| Mae Frost | Writer |
| William Frost | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry L. Rattenberry | |
| Ethel Lynne | |
| Billie Rhodes | |
| Eddie Lyons |
