She Loved Him Plenty

19181918
20m

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5.5/10

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Heinie Conklin, Polly Moran, and Ben Turpin in She Loved Him Plenty (1918)

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Polly conducts a pawn shop with Ben and Charles as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cas... Read allPolly conducts a pawn shop with Ben and Charles as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Polly. Marie, a gypsy girl, is chas... Read allPolly conducts a pawn shop with Ben and Charles as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Polly. Marie, a gypsy girl, is chased into the pawn shop by a murderous looking gypsy. The would-be murderer is driven away b... Read all

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Directors
- Hampton Del Ruth
- F. Richard Jones
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- Hampton Del Ruth(scenario)
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Polly conducts a pawn shop with Ben and Charles as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Polly. Marie, a gypsy girl, is chased into the pawn shop by a murderous looking gypsy. The would-be murderer is driven away by the willing clerks and Marie is given refuge in the pawn shop. This doesn't make a hit with Polly, and the fun starts. Jealous? No, Polly isn't jealous - she just likes to have a little gypsy girl take her Ben away from her. —Motion Picture News, August 3, 1918

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- Short
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Only the first reel survives.

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7/10

Half Survives

Only the first reel of this two-reel Sennett comedy survives. What does looks like it was inspired, to choose a kind word, by Chaplin's THE PAWN SHOP. Heinie Conklin is even made up to look like Chaplin, although he has a mustache like Snub Pollard. Ben Turpin plays the lead clerk, and has several good sequences, especially the opening one, in which he's arranging clothes on dummies and losing the struggle. Edgar Kennedy, hair starting to go, makes up the villain of the piece, and Polly Moran and Marie Prevost provide the sex appeal.

Well, Miss Prevost does. Lots of good gags, and for once, Turpin does not annoy me, with never a crossed eye to inspire terror in the audience.

The second half is said to involve a trip to the beach. This was not uncommon for two-reel shorts: do a bunch of gags in one setting, move, and do other gags in another.

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