When Courage Fled (1909)
Little Mrs. Chalmers is afraid of nothing. When the men push past the line of waiting women at the railroad station she throws them back into their proper place and holds them there until the women have been waited upon. A masher follows her through the park and persists in annoying her with his attention. She makes quick work of him, throwing him into the river. She foils an attempted holdup and captures a Black Hand abductor with scarcely an effort but she is only a woman after all and when she sees a tiny mouse running around on the floor, she climbs onto a chair and screams for help as loudly as if she had never accomplished great feats of bravery. Her feelings may well be imagined when it is found that the mouse is only a mechanical toy operated by her son Johnny in revenge for her refusal to let him go out and play. To cry over a real mouse would have been humiliating, but a clockwork affair-. Johnny is very very sorry that he did it, but it is too late to mourn. The illusion has been shattered.
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GenresComedy
Crime
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
