A Biting Business (1911)
Felix Hardin is a hard-working old man employed as a bookkeeper in a large concern. He has a large family and is wrapped up in his wife and children. He longs to take them out of the heat of the city to enjoy the balmy air of the country. The occasion presents itself. Clifton, a dealer in real estate, visits the office where he is working and calls his attention to a glowing advertisement, offering bungalow lots very cheap. Hardin is not a business man and is very gullible. He looks at the plan of the lots and is infatuated with the ideas of owning one. The payments are easy and he is persuaded to part with the contents of his pay envelope as a first installment. He returns home and gleefully explains the deal to his wife. She does not share in his enthusiasm, as there are bills to meet, and she had counted on his weekly salary to pay them. She is mollified, however, when she sees the glowing press matter and the plat of the lot. When summer comes Hardin has a vacation and he packs his family off to the shore to feast their eyes on the lot. He finds it with some difficulty and learns that he has been the victim of a cruel swindle, the lot being situated in a mosquito-infested swamp, in an isolated spot. All the members of the family give vent to their feelings in tears. Hardin crumples up the deed for the lot and casts it into the bog and the family walk away downhearted. Montgomery, a wealthy real estate dealer, has built a bungalow near the site of Hardin's lot, and comes down with his wife for the summer. The mosquitoes make life miserable for them and he investigates. In order to rid himself of the pests Montgomery is informed the swamp must be drained and filled and he decides to purchase the property and stop the breeding of the insects. Clifton calls upon him and they walk out to inspect the swamp. Hardin overhears the conversation and then steals away and fishes out the deed to his lot. He is approached by the sharks and holds out for an exorbitant sum for his purchase and gets it to his joy. A case of the biter being stung good and hard.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Thomas H. Ince | Director |
| Carl Laemmle | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ethel Grandin |
