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  • The Baron's Bear Escape (1914)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
The Baron's Bear Escape (1914)
Short | Comedy, Short
The Baron Wilhelm von Hasenpfeffer, a fat old coward, is anxious to show himself the gamest old sport in the country to the girl of his desire. He is favored by the girl's father, who, impressed with his wealth and position, uses a cane to...See moreThe Baron Wilhelm von Hasenpfeffer, a fat old coward, is anxious to show himself the gamest old sport in the country to the girl of his desire. He is favored by the girl's father, who, impressed with his wealth and position, uses a cane to drive off Wallace, a youthful and favored suitor. Nursing his sore feelings and limbs, young Wallace procures a bear skin, and, hiding on the back of the wagon which carries the Baron's hunting party to the mountains, gets into the skin in time to play bear for the ardent hunter. Driven by terror, the Baron falls over a precipice. Thoroughly frightened by the consequences of his joke, Wallace calls to the Baron, now hanging to the limb of a tree half way down the precipice, that he will bring aid. Still in the bear skin, he rushes for help, and only the drunkenness of the first man he meets saves him from meeting the fate of the bear whose part he plays. Coming to the call station of the mounted police, he turns in a call that starts the force out on the gallop. Discarding the bear's head, he rushes back to the family, awaiting the return of the hunter. They, too, start to the rescue. Fearing he has not sufficient help to meet requirements, he calls upon the storekeepers at the crossroad of the mountains, who start forth at high speed to lend their aid. The family arriving first, get a rope down to the struggling Baron, but their combined strength is not enough to raise him, even the tree about which they wind the rope is giving way. The mounted police arrive and add further to the excitement by one of their number falling over the precipice. To stop his terrific slide, he grabs the unfortunate Baron, and both are precipitated to a mud hole at the base of the precipice. The different parties of rescuers arriving at full speed lose their foothold on the slippery mountain side, and one after the other join the Baron in the mud hole, who finds himself a cushion for each arrival. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Henry Lehrman
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Updated Dec 20, 1914
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Dec 20, 1914 (United States)

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Henry Bergman
Baron Wilhelm von Hasenpfeffer Baron Wilhelm von Hasenpfeffer   See fewer
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