The Revolt of Mr. Wiggs (1915)
Wiggs' wife is a militant suffragist, and he is the miserable sufferer left at home to mind their five children and feel that married life is closely approaching Sherman's idea of war. Things get worse and worse until one day when his wife is leading the Suffragette parade on horseback, a pretty fortuneteller forecasts his future, adding that he is directly descended from gladiators and fighters. This fills him with pride, but when he glances toward his strong-armed wife, he slumps back into submissiveness. The girl insists he could conquer her if he tried, and finally Wiggs exclaims, "I'm going to break up that parade if it's the last thing I do!" Seeing a farmer about to drown a cage full of rats, he bargains for them and carries them off in a bag. When he arrives at the grandstand where his wife is holding forth to the assembled crowd, he stalks up and brazenly defies her, then liberates the rodents among the women on the platform. A wild scramble follows, and the meeting breaks up in a riot. Wiggs grins over the fact that just before that Mrs. Wiggs had voiced the sentiment that women should vote because they are afraid of nothing. The Suffragettes never stop running until they reach a ladder leaning against a house. They scramble up frantically, clear to the roof, and when the painter, who has been using the ladder, nonchalantly takes it away with him. they can't get down. Wiggs sees their predicament, and after much parleying, he gets another ladder and helps the still trembling women down. His wife is all in, but when they get home, Wiggs grimly hands her the broom and tells her to get to work. He bosses her around and with a grin of satisfaction, smokes his pipe in peace.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Edward F. Stanton | Director |
| Frederick Chapin | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Donald MacBride | |
| Kate Price | |
| Ethel Corcoran |
