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  • The Tale of a Black Eye (1913)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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The Tale of a Black Eye (1913)
Short | Short, Comedy
Jones has a jealous wife, and she has good reason to be so, for Jones is an awful flirt. She finally decides to keep tab on him all day and makes him promise to telephone her every five minutes. Jones explains this situation to his boss, ...See moreJones has a jealous wife, and she has good reason to be so, for Jones is an awful flirt. She finally decides to keep tab on him all day and makes him promise to telephone her every five minutes. Jones explains this situation to his boss, who agrees to telephone Mrs. Jones himself, in order that his employee can get his work accomplished. The boss keeps his word, and at five minute intervals calls up Mrs. Jones and advises her that her husband is still on the job. In the afternoon Jones is sent on an errand and passes a shop in the window of which beautiful models are demonstrating gowns. They look pretty good to Jones, and he saunters in and tries to strike up an acquaintance with them. The bouncer is called who lands a right swing on the hapless flirt, who is then kicked out into the street. It so happened that a moving picture man was filming the front of the store, and the camera caught the entire incident. In the meantime Jones's boss has been phoning as agreed, and is just telling Mrs. Jones that her husband was in the office at work when he walks into the house. She demands an explanation and he tells her he saved a child from being run over by an automobile, but was himself struck by the ear. That evening they go to a moving picture show and the film in which Jones played a star part is thrown on the screen. He tries to divert his wife's attention from the picture, to no avail, and Jones receives a lesson from his irate spouse. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Henry Lehrman
Producer
Mack Sennett
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Updated Jun 19, 1913
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Jun 19, 1913 (United States)

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