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Hired and Fired
(1916) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Jack Dillon (John Francis Dillon)
Cast: Ben Turpin [Bloggie], Paddy McQuire (Paddy McGuire) [Bungling Bill], Arthur Moon [the director], Rena Rogers [the leading lady], Jack Gaines [the manager], Ed J. Laurie (Edward J. Laurie) [the property man]
Vogue Films, Incorporated, production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Robert A. Dillon. / Released 9 July 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bill and Bloggie, youths out of work, are ejected from their dingy room by the janitor and his assistant. Refusing to leave so comfortable an abode, the bungling men fight and knock out the janitor, but not his assistant, until after he forces them to flee down a fire escape. At the bottom of the fire escape, they fall on a cop who is partaking of some alcoholic nourishment. Sending him to dreamland, they manage to obtain a newspaper from which they secure employment at the Vogue Studio. There they steal one of the property men’s lunch, and the theft is blamed on the Tragedian, who is always complaining of hunger. He is about to be discharged when the Director is hit on the head with the lunch pail, and he in anger blames it on Moon, a member of the company. Numerous other side-splitting antics occur, until finally the Director calls Bloggie to play his part. He has a long, wavy mustache, which Bill, who tries to queer him, ties to one of the scene supporters after hitting him with a dumbbell without satisfactory results. As the Director calls for actions, Bloggie starts to enter the set, but falls, tearing off his mustache, and the scene is marred. After many trials he is discharged, and for revenge, he turns the fire hose loose in the Studio with disastrous effects upon everybody. The cop they assaulted earlier in the story calls upon the Manager, and as they look over the studio, the cop recognizes Bloggie as one of his assailants. He is too late though, as the hose is doing the work of a dozen policemen and spreading the most amusing comedy yet seen in Vogue pictures. Bill and Bloggie are captured this time, and receiving a dose of their own medicine, they resolve never again to enter a studio.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 October 2022.
References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.
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