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After Her Dough
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon)
Cast: Fay Tincher [Fay Doughbags], Tod Browning [the yeggs leader], Baldy Belmont [the bomb thrower], Max Davidson [the policeman], Tammany Young
Komic Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Released 25 March 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A very wealthy heiress decides to make her home in Quietville and realizing her immense fortune in jewels as well as money needs protection, she has the police stationed around the house. Of course, the news travels and attracts the yeggs as well as the Anarchist, haters of society. The yeggs decide to represent themselves as police so visit the station house and after applying the poison needle to the sleeping policemen don their clothes and send their pal to rob the house of the heiress. They then wait to get word from him that his job is complete so they can help him carry off the loot without being suspected. In the meantime a citizen oversees the anarchists plotting and phones the police. The impostors, thinking it is their pal hasten to the house mentioned and run into the anarchists’ den who have been previously informed of their coming. Alas, the fake police are met with a warm reception. In the meantime the heiress phones. The police who by this time have recovered. They hasten over to her home and catch the crook at work. The anarchists chase the impostors back to the police station and end their schemes with the aid of a bomb. When the police return to the station with their prisoner they find their pals gone on to the sweet hereafter.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Heiresses - Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen - Weapons: Bombs
Listing updated: 13 January 2025.
References: Skal-Browning pp. 232-233 : Website-IMDb.
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