Buster Brown Causes a Commotion (1914)
A mischievous boy, like a good man, can't easily be kept down, and Buster does more than is required to prove it. Buster, Mary Jane and Tige fare forth on their trouble hunt, and fall in with a neighbor's boy, as bent on pranks as they are. The lad has no difficulty in tempting Buster to try a sneezing powder, and its results are so instant and annoying that Buster buys the boy's supply. Punishment no longer deters him. The satisfaction he and his confederates get out of his tricks counterbalances any form of retribution. Grandpa Brown is an easy victim. Just when he had come to the first big thrill in the book he bought simply because a friend of his had written it, his staring eyes close, his mouth opens and exit sneeze. Mrs. Brown learns the cause and Buster exits likewise, under definite orders from his sneezing mother to a sneezing maid that he go to bed at once. He makes the best of a bad matter by falling asleep, but even his dreams contribute to the disregard of his many powerful resolutions. That busy little brain of his pictures Grandpa Brown spooning with the maid on a park settee. Buster and the too faithful Tige witness the ardent exchange of affection, and Buster records it with a Kodak. He and Tige hotfoot home, where Buster develops the film and astounds his mother with what it reveals. On Grandpa's return, he is shown the telltale picture and, despite its plain evidence, denies it is a likeness of him. He very properly suspects Buster, and pursues the youth over the house and into a bathroom, where Uncle Brown is about to perform a total absolution. Buster opens the door so violently that Uncle Brown is tumbled with clothes on into the filled tub. With quick requital, Grandpa seizes Buster, and as he begins to duck him into the tub, Buster falls out of bed. The tumble awakens him to the need of setting up fresh resolutions, which he knows from experience are, like pie-crust, made to be broken.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Charles H. France | Director |
| Richard F. Outcault | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Norris Millington | |
| Helen Millington |
