The Jilted Joker (1911)
Alice Day has two suitors, handsome Frank Bowers and Bachelor Joe Wharton. On a day they both come to propose, one with a handsome bouquet of flowers and the other with an elegant box of sweets. Like Portia, Alice chooses through the gifts and takes the man with the box of candy who is Bachelor Joe. Handsome Frank leaves and the next week Joe and Alice are married. They go on their honeymoon to a neighboring city and stop at a hotel, to where Frank follows them. In a spirit of mischief he resolves to play a trick on the spoony couple and fixes it with the telegraph operator in the hotel to send a fake telegram from home stating that the minister who marries them was not ordained, consequently their marriage is void. At the same moment that they read the telegram scarlet fever is discovered in the establishment and the place quarantined. Joe appeals to a clergyman who is staying at the hotel who gladly marries them, but a few moments later during the vaccination, the house detective recognizes a tattoo mark on the supposed minister's arm and makes the dramatic announcement that this dignitary is no minister at all but a crook. Things are fixed later when the lady telegraph operator confesses her share in the joke and the joker receives his just deserts.
All Releases
Domestic
–
–
International
–
–
Worldwide
–
–
GenresComedy
Short
IMDbPro
See more details at IMDbPro
There is no release data available for this title.
