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Sonny Jim and the Family Party
Also known as [Sunny Jim and the Family Party]
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Tefft Johnson
Cast: Bobby Connelly [Sonny Jim], Tefft Johnson [Sonny Jim’s father], Mabel Kelly [Sonny Jim’s mother], Helen Connelly [Ruth], Harry McAleer, Ethel Tully, Karin Norman, Joe Halpin, Frances Connelly, Joe McAleer, Helen Johnson, Katherine Keeler, Bill Johnson (Willie Johnson)
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Elaine Sterne (Elaine S. Carrington). / Released 24 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Daddy Jim, remembering Aunt Susan’s boyhood doughnuts, is delighted to receive an invitation from her to spend Thanksgiving with her, and to bring his family. After a long and tiresome train ride, they find no one at the station to meet them but the driver of a dilapidated Ford. They make the best of it climb in, and after a bone-racking ride over the rough country roads, the little car suddenly stops dead. The driver “reckons they lost some of the machinery back a ways” so all have to get out and walk the rest of the way. Mother Dear and Daddy receive a warm welcome from Auntie, but Sonny is the object of continual teasing by his five little cousins, “The Imps.” Trouble follows rapidly, until Sonny unfortunately knocks over a cherished plant of Auntie’s and is sent to his room dinnerless. Sonny climbs out of the window and runs back to a roadhouse they had passed, where he makes friends with Tubby, the owner’s son. The dinner is spoiled so all go to the roadhouse, where they find the little rascal enjoying a royal dinner. A happy reunion follows.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 December 2024.
References: Tarbox-Lost pp. 134, 279 : Website-IMDb.
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