All for a Tooth (1914)
It all started when Samanthy had a new tooth put into her mouth. Unfortunately, it was a little loose to the setting, but as Samunthy did not know this, there was no cloud on her horizon whatsoever. When she went into town to do some shopping, Samanthy decided, in a properly wifely fashion, to buy her husband a present. Accordingly, she bought him a beautiful calabash pipe, which had been reduced from four dollars to twenty-nine cents. After that she bought him a book dealing with the Catacombs in Rome. Finally she bought herself a box of caramels. On her way home on the train, she opened the box of caramels and helped herself to a piece. This move was distinctly a faux pas. For the candy was hard and gummy, and Samanthy's tooth, as we have hinted, was far from firm. Her feelings when the tooth came out in the candy, transcend all our poor efforts at rhetorical description. So troubled was she by the accident, however, that she left the beautiful calabash pipe in her seat on the train. Arriving home, she filled Cy's ears with lamentations over her unfortunate mischance. Cy, wearied at length, took the book she had bought him and retired to the porch. The first picture Cy saw in the book was a view of the Catacombs showing a weird and awful assortment of skulls and bones. As he was reading the ghastly particulars, he fell asleep and dreamed that he and Samanthy were walking about in just such a place as he had seen in the picture. After he had dropped candle grease in his eye, and had been severely bitten by an enraged skeleton, Cy succeeded in extracting a large tooth from one of the skulls. This tooth he thoughtfully placed in Samanthy's mouth. It was several sizes too large for her, and she didn't like it at all. Cy, himself, did not care very much for the general effect of it, and when he shrank away from the bitterly complaining Samanthy, he was very glad to wake up and find that she was sitting beside him with no awful tusk in the place of the missing tooth.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Wadsworth | |
| Ida Williams | |
| Orleana Coughlin | |
| Yale Benner |
