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Delinquent Bridegrooms (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short

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Delinquent Bridegrooms (1916)

Short | Comedy, Short

Thompson and Brown are engaged to marry the Widows Moon and Dolan. For this purpose they hire two dress suits to be married in, and returning to Thompson's home they find the daughter, Rena Thompson, spooning with her sweetheart, who is ...See moreThompson and Brown are engaged to marry the Widows Moon and Dolan. For this purpose they hire two dress suits to be married in, and returning to Thompson's home they find the daughter, Rena Thompson, spooning with her sweetheart, who is ejected violently from the premises. To do this Thompson and Brown fought with the fury of tigers, and the result was that they spoiled their clothes. Thinking to remove a repugnant odor which the full dress had acquired, they hung them out on the line in the back yard for an airing. Bungling Bill and Bloggie have employed the attention of a hard-working laborer who is emerging from a saloon with a can of beer. While the exponent of honest toil is directing Bill to a certain street he has asked about, Bloggie is inserting a hose in the beer, and drains it dry. To make it seem as heavy to the laborer he puts in a handy brick and allows Bill to have some beer while he keeps on talking to the laborer. While Bill is puffing like an engine to suck some beer through the hose, Bloggie tells the laborer what he is doing, and the laborer takes the brick from the can and hits Bill on the head with it, while Bloggie makes his escape. Later this team passes the fence along the back yard of Thompson. They steal the clothes and leave their own regalias in place of the suits. Thompson and Brown see the theft and pursue them, but they steal an auto and make their getaway. While speeding in the auto they are arrested and brought to the station house. Unable to pay the fine, they are jailed, and the cop is then warned to look out for two desperate men who are heading for the town. The photo he shows the cop of the desperate men is that of Bloggie and Bill, and when later Thompson and Brown start for the widows in the clothes of Bill and Bloggie they are mistaken for the two men and arrested. Locked in the next cell to that of Bill and Bloggie, the widow Moon sends her son to bail the husbands-to-be out. Thompson had telephoned them when he was arraigned and Moon told him he would bail them out if he (Thompson) would consent to his marrying Rena. Thompson refused, and Moon, to make good his bluff to the Sergeant, bails out Bloggie and Bill. Taking these two men to the widows' house, he hides them in the banquet room, and they eat up everything and steal their presents. Meanwhile, Thompson and Brown have broken jail and are chased by the cops. They run to the widows' home, just as Bill and Bloggie have been discovered in their thefts. From this on things happen with great rapidity, during which Moon kidnaps the minister and makes him marry Rena and himself. Just as the ceremony is over, Bill comes out of the window, followed by Bloggie and the cops, and then a chase ensues, during which the team of laugh provokers are forced to jump on a passing truck, and the cops are holding on to a rope attached to the truck. Bill cuts the rope and makes their escape, while at the widows' Thompson, Brown and the widows embrace. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Ben Turpin Bloggie aka Orlando Bloggie aka Orlando See fewer	Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919)
Paddy McGuire Bungling Bill Bungling Bill See fewer	A Broadway Cowboy (1920)
Rena Rogers Rena Thompson Rena Thompson See fewer	The Tale of the Night Before (1915)
Arthur Moon Rena's Sweetheart Rena's Sweetheart See fewer	A Lislebank (1917)
Jack Gaines 1st Widower 1st Widower See fewer	A Mixup at Rudolph's (1916)
Ed Lowry 2nd Widower 2nd Widower See fewer	The House of Mystery (1934)
Louise Owen 1st Widow (as Louise Owens) 1st Widow (as Louise Owens) See fewer	Igorrotes, Crocodiles and a Hat Box (1916)
Margaret Templeton 2nd Widow 2nd Widow See fewer	A Circus Cyclone (1917)