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  • A Charming Villain (1916)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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A Charming Villain (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy
Billy, a social wolf, strolls through the country looking for adventure. He finds Sis spooning with her father's choice. He frightens Jim away, then after a fake struggle introduces himself to Sis as just having saved her life. He makes ...See moreBilly, a social wolf, strolls through the country looking for adventure. He finds Sis spooning with her father's choice. He frightens Jim away, then after a fake struggle introduces himself to Sis as just having saved her life. He makes violent love to Sis and gets her to steal her father's coin and elope. She does so, and he and Sis go to the city. Jim comes from his hiding place. The father tells Jim to go after the girl, and he (Jim) can have both her and the money. He arrives in the great city alone. Meantime Bill has taken Sis to a cabaret and filled her with milk. She desires to go in for cabaret singing and takes a dancer's place. Bill takes Sis to his swell residence, and from there phones to a roughneck to come as a preacher and perform a mock marriage so he can get the money. Jim, having by this time reached the cabaret and fallen a victim to a vampire's wiles, hears the plot and follows the roughneck. The roughneck goes to a shed and makes his change and then to the exterior of Bill's house. Here Jim leaps on him and knocks him out takes the coat, hat and goggles and thus disguised as a minister, goes inside to rescue Sis. Inside he has difficulty making Sis understand him, and waits for a chance to do up Bill. And in the end the villainous city chap gets the girl and poor Jim is distracted. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
John Steppling
Writer
Harry Wulze (scenario)
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Updated Oct 6, 1916
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Oct 6, 1916 (United States)

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