The Fisherman's Luck (1910)
Professor Coblenz was an enthusiastic fisherman. Fishing is particularly the pastime of the deep thinkers, and the professor was such a deep thinker that he was apt to be a trifle absent-minded. He shouldered his pole and started for the sea wall where the fish ought to be biting, and he was so deeply engrossed in trying to figure out why Swiss cheese has holes and smearkase none at all, that he failed to blow his horn and slow down at the crossing, with the result that the pole knocks over the basket of clean laundry that the washlady is toting to a customer. She gets what satisfaction she can from mussing the professor up a bit and he goes upon his erratic way only to knock down a couple of young ladies with the far-reaching fishpole. A cyclist is the next to suffer, and a farmer souses him with a pail of milk when the professor digs the farmer's fiancée in the ribs with the butt of the pole. Arrived at the sea wall, the professor baits his hook. Of course he does not expect a bite; that's not what he does fishing for, and in the natural order of things he would fish all afternoon without doing more than furnish some hungry fish with an abundant free lunch, but just behind the professor a young couple are spooning, and fate sends a large fish to impale itself on the hook. Wild with excitement, the professor gives a mighty tug and lands the finny trophy squarely between the faces of the two lovers, whose lips are puckered for a kiss. They charge on the professor just as the other victims come up. It's all right, though, the professor can swim, and it's a good thing he can, for he is thrown over the sea wall.
All Releases
Domestic
–
–
International
–
–
Worldwide
–
–
GenresComedy
Short
IMDbPro
See more details at IMDbPro
| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
