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Hubby’s Cure
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Allen Curtis
Cast:William Franey (Billy Franey) [Mr. Brown], Gale Henry [Mrs. Brown], Louise Fazenda [Miss Newlywed]
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Joker Comedies]. / Released 16 January 1915; in a split-reel with Quaint Brittany (1915). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Brown loves a good time. He arrives home in a condition that makes his wife resolve to try and cure him of his bad habits. An old school friend, newly married, moves into the next apartment. They meet and after a recital of Mrs. Brown’s woes, Mrs. Newlywed suggests that they change the furniture in the apartments and try thus to scare Brown into a cure. This is done and when Brown arrives home that night he finds Mrs. Newlywed in his flat. She beats him for an intruder and finally is confronted by Newlywed (as the outraged husband) and is run out of the apartment. He argues with the janitor, who professes not to know him. and who in turn runs him out. He is scared again by the policeman and finally goes back to his club. The conspirators change the furniture back again and Mrs. Brown calls her husband at the club and asks him to come home. Brown returns cautiously and finds that the policeman is polite, as is the janitor. He finds Mrs. Brown affectionate and, well, it is a case of “never again” for Brown.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 16 January 1915, p. ?] This low comedy number concerns two married couples living in adjoining apartments. The husband of one of the women comes home with a jag on and finds a rat trap in his bed containing two rats. The fun in this is rather coarse and not very effective.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Lahue-World p. 53 : Website-IMDb.
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