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Dry Goods and Damp Deeds (1917)
Short | Comedy, Short

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Dry Goods and Damp Deeds (1917)

Short | Comedy, Short

Phil arrives in town on top of a freight car, dressed in an autoist's outfit. He sees I.M. Shoddy, the proprietor of the dry goods store, persecuting a defenseless sewing girl, and trying to persuade her to enter his car. Phil rescues her ...See morePhil arrives in town on top of a freight car, dressed in an autoist's outfit. He sees I.M. Shoddy, the proprietor of the dry goods store, persecuting a defenseless sewing girl, and trying to persuade her to enter his car. Phil rescues her and follows her to Shoddy's store, where she works. She gives him an orange as a souvenir, and he saves a piece of the peel. He waits outside, and through the window sees the shadow of Shoddy undressing a wax model. He rushes into the store, and after explanations, is given the position of porter. He meets the sewing girl, but Merta, the fore-lady, falls in love with him, and makes it hard for him to meet the girl. Phil has all sorts of adventures in the store. He gives away the goods, and a policeman is called who chases him. He pretends to be a model, and escapes. He waters the flowers on a lady's hat, and finally, when a customer gives him her baby to hold, he puts the child in the cash basket, and swings it to the bundle girl. He sees a girl putting stockings for display upon a dummy, and is shocked, and later when a real customer is trying on stockings, Phil gets in wrong by thinking her a dummy. A veiled woman comes in. Phil pursues her, and when he finds she is colored, he faints. At last he finds Lucille in the sewing room, and plays a song for her on the sleeve-board. Shoddy has been watching him, and now he enters, knocks Phil out, and carries the girl to the cellar. He ties her to a pillar, and turns on the water. Phil follows and there is a fight. Lucille is drowning, and though Phil tries all sorts of ruses, he cannot manage to get into the cellar to rescue her. At last he is thrown out of the window, and falls through a manhole into the flooded cellar, and finds himself with Lucille at last. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Phil Dunham The Wayfarer The Wayfarer See fewer	I'll Name the Murderer (1936)
Lucille Hutton The Beautiful Sewing Girl The Beautiful Sewing Girl See fewer	The Winner (1926)
Charles Inslee I.M. Shoddy I.M. Shoddy See fewer	Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
Merta Sterling The Forelady The Forelady See fewer	Paid to Love (1927)