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Hiram Buys an Auto (1913)
Short | 8 min | Short, Comedy

Hiram Buys an Auto (1913)

Short | 8 min | Short, Comedy

Hiram Hunt, a rube farmer of the very verdant variety, decides to buy an automobile. So he fills his pockets with greenbacks and visits town, accompanied by his wife and daughter, and his old chum and neighbor, Jacob Smith. The automobile ...See moreHiram Hunt, a rube farmer of the very verdant variety, decides to buy an automobile. So he fills his pockets with greenbacks and visits town, accompanied by his wife and daughter, and his old chum and neighbor, Jacob Smith. The automobile agents soon learn of Hiram's presence and his desire, and they fairly mob him in their efforts to get his trade. The day's excitement finally ends disastrously for Hiram's pocket hook, and almost so for his life. He purchases the cheapest little old wheezy machine in town, and from the moment he starts off with it, his career is suggestive of a deliberate intention to murder his family and neighbor, and suicide away his own life. He finally runs the machine through a stout fence and into the side of a barn, where the whole works blow up; Jacob disappears skyward with the debris. Soon he falls from the sky, and is followed by various parts of the shattered auto. Hiram dolefully gathers up such parts of the machine as he can carry, and starts to walk home, a sadder but wiser rube. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Tom Santschi Hiram Hunt Hiram Hunt See fewer	King of the Wild (1931)
Bessie Eyton Hiram's Daughter Hiram's Daughter See fewer	The Girl of Gold (1925)
Lillian Hayward Hiram's Wife Hiram's Wife See fewer	The Child of the Sea (1913)
William Hutchison Jacob Smith (as William Hutchinson) Jacob Smith (as William Hutchinson) See fewer	The Fair Barbarian (1917)
Wheeler Oakman Actor Actor See fewer	Lights of New York (1928)
Frank Clark Actor Actor See fewer	The Light of Western Stars (1918)
Fred Huntley Actor Actor See fewer	The Ne'er Do Well (1915)
Anna Dodge Actress Actress See fewer	The White Medicine Man (I) (1911)