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How They Struck Oil
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Dell Henderson
Cast: Charles Murray [a farmer], Gus Pixley [a rube], Harry Hyde [a city man], J. Jiquel Lanoe [a city man], William J. Butler
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Richard Ridgely. / Released 15 January 1914; in a split-reel with Out-Blacked (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A party of city folks is stranded on a country road, their automobile having become disabled. Several of the farm folks gather around them and become the object of the city folks’ derision. Chance gives the farm folks a glorious opportunity to retaliate.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 April 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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