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Sweeney and the Million
Also known as {Sweeny and the Million}
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Charles H. France
Cast: John Lancaster [Patrick Sweeney, the hodcarrier], Lillian Brown Leighton (Lillian Leighton) [Mrs. Sweeney], George L. Cox [Sweeney’s lawyer], Timmy Sheehan [Sweeney’s son], Thomas Flynn
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. / Released 4 February 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Sweeney, a hod carrier, falls heir to a million, and proceeds to rake in all the cash that he and a corps of messenger boys can carry. He sees a taxicab and the chauffeur demands so much an hour. Sweeney buys the machine outright, and throws the ex-owner out. He and his wife race up and down the city and create a sensation by “loud” attire and equally “loud” eating in a swell café. They also give a ball that has some extraordinary dancing “stunts” on the part of the Sweeneys. As a finale, he goes to a fashionable “club” and is trimmed of spare cash and all his other property, real and personal, as the result of a rash bet across a revolving card table. He is thrown out and goes back to the hod next morning in his dress suit.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Lahue-Selig p. 133 : Website-IMDb.
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