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The Gold Brick (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short

The Gold Brick (1912)

Short | Comedy, Short

Snakey Snodgrass conceives a scheme with which to defraud the crooks of New York. He purchases enough gold to make a brick worth about fifteen thousand dollars. With this he comes to New York City, opens an office as a "Gold Expert" and ...See moreSnakey Snodgrass conceives a scheme with which to defraud the crooks of New York. He purchases enough gold to make a brick worth about fifteen thousand dollars. With this he comes to New York City, opens an office as a "Gold Expert" and sends out word to the crooks and swindlers that he has discovered a new metal which will pass as gold. He uses the real gold brick with which to make all the jeweler's tests, with chemicals, etc. Then he has an assistant in a different place gilding bricks and preparing them for sale to the swindlers. The police learn of his activity and they raid his office. He grabs up a brick, which he believes to be the one of pure gold, and is a victim of his trickery, leaving the real one lying on the floor. After Snakey leaves in the custody of the officers, his assistant looks with disgust at the bricks and starts dumping them out of the window. Small boys amuse themselves by throwing the bricks around. Then they decide to put one which happens to be the genuine one under a silk hat, leaving it on a pavement. Various people kick the hat, and hurt their toes, and then laugh when they see the gold brick. At last a broken down, ragged-looking swindler comes out of a saloon door and discovers the gold brick. He takes up a position on a street corner to wait for some greenhorn or rube. Silas Perkins, of Pumpkin Center, who has sold his farm for a thousand dollars comes into town to live with his daughter and her husband, who is a young chemist. Silas is accosted by the swindler, who eventually sells him the real gold brick for a thousand dollars. Silas proceeds to his daughter's house, where he tells them of his purchase. They are heartbroken, and when he learns that he has fallen victim to a simple fraud, the old man is so overcome by the loss of his money that he takes to his bed. His son-in-law calls the doctor, who orders them to tell him that the brick is real gold, in order to cheer him up and bring him back to health. The son-in-law gets some of his chemicals, brings them to the table by the bedside and starts on his tests, planning to "jolly" the old man. His eyes bulge, and he discovers that it is real gold. The old fellow sits up and dons his clothes in a jiffy when he learns that it is true, and the son-in-law, the daughter and the old man hastily call a taxicab and hustle for the office of the U.S. metal assayer. There they sell the brick for its true value, and the last view is that of the old farmer telling the story of its purchase to the official chemist, while the son and daughter join them in merry laughter. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Lee Beggs Snakey Snodgrass Snakey Snodgrass See fewer	Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913)

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