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At the Banquet Table (1915)
Short | Drama, Short

At the Banquet Table (1915)

Short | Drama, Short

Young businessman Sheerl Jones gives a banquet to his bachelor friends. In the wee hours of morning many of the guests wander from the table while some are bundled off in taxicabs. Sheerl falls asleep while a few of his guests still remain...See moreYoung businessman Sheerl Jones gives a banquet to his bachelor friends. In the wee hours of morning many of the guests wander from the table while some are bundled off in taxicabs. Sheerl falls asleep while a few of his guests still remain at table and dreams. He meets in his dream young naval officer Bill Coles, who has returned home after a long voyage in the Pacific with the fleet. The young officer is so delighted to feel the streets of New York beneath his feet that he forgets wife and child at home and joins his friends in a celebration. The young officer and his friends journey from bar to bar, and to every cabaret. The officer thinks he sees his wife in every cabaret girl he meets and makes violent love to them all. His friends notice that he is somewhat inebriated and determine to take him home. They endeavor to obtain the officer's address from him. He mumbles something they cannot understand, but one of them remembers the street the officer lived on when he last visited him, and although he does not know the house number, he orders the taxi driver to drive slowly along until they reach a familiar-looking residence. The cabby finally draws up in front of two houses which are almost exactly alike. The friend cannot remember which house the young officer lives in, but not caring to awaken the neighbors, he decides to put the young officer through a back window of one of the houses, in the hope that he will find himself in his own home on awakening in the morning. Mrs. Jones is sitting up beside her baby's crib when she hears someone tampering with a window in the rear of her home. She quietly takes her revolver and fires twice at a heavy pair of curtains behind which she believes the burglar is concealed. The shots awaken Mrs. Coles, who lives next door. Mrs. Coles is the wife of Bill Coles, the young naval officer. After her two shots, Mrs. Jones parts the curtains and sees what appears to her to be the form of a dead burglar on the floor. Believing she has murdered a man, she calls up her husband at the club and then runs across the lawn to Mrs. Coles's home and tells the latter of her experience. Mrs. Coles 'phones to the police, then rushes over to view the burglar's dead body. She is horrified when she discovers that it is her husband and hysterically accuses Mrs. Jones of shooting her husband. Meanwhile, Jones leaves his club in a hurry. So confused is he that he fails to notice that he has grabbed someone else's overcoat in the excitement. The police notice him running at top speed through the streets and decide to search him. Jones gives them his right name, but when they find a different name in the lining of the overcoat he is wearing they decide to lock him up. The police have just received word from Mrs. Coles of the mysterious burglary and decide to hold Jones for further examination. In the interim Mrs. Coles, while taking care of her husband's "body," is startled to hear her supposedly dead spouse snoring loudly behind the curtains. She again looks him over carefully and finds him unhurt but smelling strongly of cocktails. She pours cold water on him and Coles quickly revives. Jones, meanwhile, is given the third degree by the police and is having visions of the electric chair when suddenly he awakes. He finds himself sitting in his chair at the club with a smoking cigar still clutched in his fingers. The remnants of the banquet lie on all sides about him and as he shakes himself together he receives a phone message from patient wife who is awaiting him at home. Relieved to find that his experiences all have been a dream, Jones bids good night to his guests and takes a cab for home and wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
King Baggot Sheerl Jones Sheerl Jones See fewer	Jim Webb, Senator (1914)
Arline Pretty Mrs. Sheerl Jones Mrs. Sheerl Jones See fewer	The Primrose Path (1925)
Ned Reardon Bill Coles Bill Coles See fewer	The Marble Heart (1915)
Frank Smith Robert Robert See fewer	A Strange Disappearance (1915)
Ed Duane Maurice Maurice See fewer	The City of Terrible Night (1915)
Albert MacQuarrie Actor Actor See fewer	The Viking (1928)
George Lessey Actor (as George A. Lessey) Actor (as George A. Lessey) See fewer	The Corsican Brothers (1915)