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An Accidental Dentist
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by J.T. Hevener (Jerold T. Hevener)
Cast: J.T. Hevener (Jerold T. Hevener) [Police Officer Murphy], Eleanor Caines [Nora, the dentist’s cook], Roy McKee (Raymond McKee), Sam Collins
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released [?] 4 or 10? January 1913; in a split-reel with Stage-Struck Sally (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Policeman Murphy leaves his post to take lunch with Nora, a fashionable dentist’s maid, during the absence of the dentist. Two thieves seeing the dentist depart, enter the place to rob it. When they hear someone coming they decide to pretend they are patients and hurriedly tie their heads up. The policeman, noting the evidence of a robbery, and seeing through the ruse of the thieves, pretends he is the dentist and placing one in the chair, administers laughing gas. The second thief attempts to escape, but the policeman overpowers him, forces him into a chair and also gives him laughing gas. Nora and the policeman return to the dining room to finish their banquet, when the dentist returns, and, peeking through the window, sees Nora entertaining the policeman. He indignantly reports the policeman’s absence from post, and the captain returns with the dentist and peeks in the window. Nora sees them and hides the policeman under the table. The captain sees nothing wrong, and the policeman emerges from the house with the two prisoners, who prove to be noted criminals for whom the police have long been searching. The policeman becomes a hero and is praised instead of blamed.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 January 2025.
References: Braff-Short n. 32 : Website-IMDb.
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