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A Quiet Evening at Home
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 13 February 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The reel deals with one George Gibson, a commercial traveler, who returns home from a rather long and arduous trip on the road. His wife is delighted to see him and gladly acquiesces in his request for a real old-fashioned, quiet evening at home. After making her spouse comfortable with slippers and pipe, the loving wife takes her sewing and they settle by the fire for a quiet, cozy time. But it is not to be. Things start to happen immediately. A neighbor reminds the wife of an engagement she has made some days prior, but to please her husband the wife excuses herself from keeping the appointment saying that she expects her husband home at any moment. They once more settle down to their “quiet evening,” but an answer comes to her message from the disappointed neighbor to the effect that she has sent over her mother and maiden aunt to take care of the house and look after George’s comfort and wait for George’s advent. The old ladies arrive and it is up to the wife to make good on her assertion that George had not yet arrived at home. The husband is therefore hidden in the next room, the wide promising to get away from the card game and relieve his embarrassing position at the first opportunity. She leaves. The old ladies, the mother and the spinster aunt, start to investigate their friend’s flat and private affairs. In the meantime the maid and her janitor sweetheart return from an evening out and the main, upon entering her room, catches sight of a pair of masculine feet under her bed. George has hidden there in order to be out of the sight of the old ladies upon their tour of the apartment. The maid thinks George a burglar and calls for help. By the time they are through with George he is a pitiable sight and everybody in your audience will have a sore side from laughter. There is sufficient slap-stick comedy in this reel that, when coupled with the logical and connected story it tells, it will undoubtedly prove to be one of the funniest reels released during the week.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 1 February 2010.
References: Lyons-American p. 218 : Website-IMDb.
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