The Home Breakers

19151915

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A bank president in a small town bestows attentions and gifts upon the wife of his cashier. The cashier, meanwhile, is lavishing compliments and gifts upon the wife of the president. The dec... Read allA bank president in a small town bestows attentions and gifts upon the wife of his cashier. The cashier, meanwhile, is lavishing compliments and gifts upon the wife of the president. The deception on both sides is successfully perpetrated until the wives put in an appearance on t... Read allA bank president in a small town bestows attentions and gifts upon the wife of his cashier. The cashier, meanwhile, is lavishing compliments and gifts upon the wife of the president. The deception on both sides is successfully perpetrated until the wives put in an appearance on the same day at their husbands' place of business. A slight slip on the part of the janitor... Read all

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- Walter Wright(uncredited)
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Mack Swain

Ambrose

Chester Conklin

Walrus

Alice Davenport

Mrs. Ambrose

Fontaine La Rue

Mts. Walrus
(as Dora Rodgers)

Slim Summerville

The Janitor

Helen Carlyle

The Maid
(as Ollie Carlyle)

Fred Hibbard

First Cop
(as Fred Fishback)

Ted Edwards

Second Cop

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A Four-Sided Triangle And Slim Summerville

Bank president Mack Swain is carrying on an affair with Fontaine La Rue, the wife of his clerk, Chester Conklin. Meanwhile, Conklin is carrying on an affair with Alice Davenport, Swain's wife. It all comes to a head when janitor Slim Summerville locks Swain and Miss La Rue in the bank vault just as Conklin tries to blow it open for money so he and Mrs Davenport can run away.

It's a typical Keystone, filled with salacious behavior and low comedy. Swain and Conklin were often teamed together in this period as a "Big and Little" pair of comics, Swain as 'Ambrose', and Conklin as 'Walrus' -- referring to his mustache. Miss La Rue moved into features in 1918, and appeared in more than thirty, before retiring with the coming of sound. She died in 1964 at the age of 66.

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