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Golf Champion “Chick” Evans Links with Sweedie
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Wallace Beery [Sweedie], Chick Evans [himself], Leo White [Mr. Near Rich], Charlotte Mineau [Mrs. Near Rich], Ruth Hennessy [a social uplifter], Ben Turpin [the captain]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; dsitributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 2 October 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? “Chick” Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the cook for a family of “get-rich-quicks” and treated very roughly until she receives a letter telling her that her uncle has left her an immense fortune. She is then handled with white gloves. To be a society lady she must wear fine clothes and play golf, so they dress her up and take her out to the golf club. Here she meets “Chick” Evans, and he proceeds to try and teach her to play golf. He has very little success as Sweedie breaks all the clubs and insists on swinging on the ball like she was knocking a “home run.” She finally gives the ball a terrible wallop and in following it causes a great disturbance among the other players. A riot call is sent in to the police station, and in the meantime Sweedie has ordered her fortune delivered at the golf club. The fortune arrives and much is her disgust when she finds it only to be cigar coupons. The police arrive and a generous rough-house takes place.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 17 October 1914, p. ?] In this two-part comedy “Chick” Evans makes his first appearance before the camera and never once does he look it in the eye. Mr. Evans is a Western amateur golf champion, and attempts to teach Sweedie, the cook, who has fallen heir to a fortune, to play golf; here is where the fun comes in. She breaks all the clubs, swinging on the balls as though she were knocking a “home run.” It all ends in a riot, in which Sweedie cleans out the police force and everything else in sight.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 29 October 2022.
References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.
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