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  • The Battle of Running Bull (1915)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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The Battle of Running Bull (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy
Tin Ear Charlie learned from old Colonel Bunk that none but a hero might marry his daughter, Dot. And forthwith Charlie enlisted under the pea-green banner. He had no idea that war would be declared when he enlisted and Tin Ear Charlie was...See moreTin Ear Charlie learned from old Colonel Bunk that none but a hero might marry his daughter, Dot. And forthwith Charlie enlisted under the pea-green banner. He had no idea that war would be declared when he enlisted and Tin Ear Charlie was ordered to the front. In Lieut. Wampus, Tin Ear Charlie had a rival. Fed from infancy on cream puffs and charlotte russes, Lieut. Wampus had grown to an awe-inspiring size around the waist line. When he learned that Tin Ear Charlie was to be a private in his company, Lieut. Wampus immediately set the new recruit to digging sink holes for the kitchen squad and when he was doing guard duty in the rain Tin Ear Charlie had lots of sport marching around in the mud with Lieut. Wampus at his heels. The steady diet of canned Chicago meat and stockyards stew threatened to put him in the hospital. The Pea-Green Army to which Tin Ear Charlie and Lieut. Wampus were assigned was as fine a body of cripples as a grape-juice government could rake together from the Bowery. Dot felt mighty proud of Tin Ear Charlie the first time she saw him in a uniform. On several occasions, out of pure pity, she saved Charlie from bayonetting himself with the business end of his rifle and taught him the rudiments of warfare in her father's back yard, showing him how to seek cover behind chicken coops and other natural points of vantage. The pea-green regular army, when it went to war in the backyards of Long Island numbered about a hundred thousand. Each member of it, however, felt himself quite capable of driving the invading enemy into the sea, despite the fact that the latter had eight million men at its disposal. The pea-green fleet, with a half dozen serviceable submarines, most of which, made in 1893, were in dry-dock at the outbreak of war, was quickly disposed of by the enemy from over sea and then came the eight million soldiers in transports guarded by the unsinkable submarines of the enemy. The over-seas army landed in Long Island and at once commenced their attack on New York. Back of the enemy's lines at Montauk Point, the enemy put up their .42 centimeter Croup guns at a trajectory angle of 45 degrees and as Charlie ran back toward New York a big shell filled with poisonous asafetida fell to the ground near him. The enemy were close behind so Charlie picked up the shell to save his own hide and threw it among them. The entire army was wiped out, but Charley was hit by a stray chunk of asafetida and taken to the base hospital. Lieut. Wampus tried to make it appear that Charlie was a coward but Dot and Col. Bunk wouldn't hear of it and soon after the daughter of the regiment and her hero were married. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Fred J. Balshofer
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Updated May 20, 1915
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May 20, 1915 (United States)

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John E. Brennan's primary photo
John E. Brennan
Lieutenant Wampus Lieutenant Wampus   See fewer
The Protest (1915)
Ernest Shields's primary photo
Ernest Shields
Colonel Bunk Colonel Bunk   See fewer
The Greyhound Limited (1929)
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Bobbie Gould
Dot - The Daughter of the Regiment (as Dot Gould) Dot - The Daughter of the Regiment (as Dot Gould)   See fewer
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
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Arthur Tavares
Tin Ear Charlie Tin Ear Charlie   See fewer
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