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Teaching a Liar a Lesson (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short

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Teaching a Liar a Lesson (1912)

Short | Comedy, Short

Pretty Jane Grey is loved by a young artist named Philip Reese. Billy Barclay, a braggart, appears on the scene and turns the girl's head by accounts of his brave and hazardous doings. He is overheard by her brother, Jim, and Philip, who ...See morePretty Jane Grey is loved by a young artist named Philip Reese. Billy Barclay, a braggart, appears on the scene and turns the girl's head by accounts of his brave and hazardous doings. He is overheard by her brother, Jim, and Philip, who plot to reveal Billy's real character to Jane. Billy is especially eager to marry Jane, as she is heiress to $50,000, and he is living from hand to mouth. The boys, knowing Billy's impecuniosity, insert an advertisement in a local paper asking one William Barclay to call at a certain address and learn something to his advantage. The advertisement further reads that "there is something coming to you." One of the stories so vaingloriously told Jane by Billy's, narrated how he had on one occasion foiled a band of Russian anarchists, and how he had secured their private papers. Judge of his dismay, on calling at the address given in the newspaper advertisement, to find a scantily furnished room occupied by a murderous looking Russian, who immediately locked both doors of the apartment as soon as Billy entered. Under threatened pain of death, Billy is commanded to give up the stolen anarchistic documents. On his knees he protests that he never had seen such papers and never had attended a meeting of anarchists. The bearded stranger makes him sign a confession to that effect and next orders Billy to accompany him to another house in the neighborhood. To Billy's astonishment, he is conducted to the home of Jane, where she and her brother Jim are found in the sitting room. Jane is thoroughly frightened at the aspect of the stranger and at the rough usage to which he subjects poor Billy. The latter pleads with her and Jim for protection; but the stranger openly accuses Billy as being an escaped prisoner from a French jail where he had badly injured a number of the attendants. This was another of his escapades which Billy had recounted to Jane, and she is surprised to see him kneeling in supplication to the stranger and confessing that he had never been in a French prison and that he had lied. At this moment the fierce-looking Russian takes off his beard and the face of the smiling Philip is revealed. Billy, the braggart and liar, falls back speechless for a moment, and then rushes from the house, as Jane rushes into the outstretched arms of Philip. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
John Steppling Billy Barclay - the Liar Billy Barclay - the Liar See fewer	The Reckless Age (1924)
Francis X. Bushman Philip Reese Philip Reese See fewer	Sabrina (1954)
Beverly Bayne Jane Gray Jane Gray See fewer	Romeo and Juliet (II) (1916)
Whitney Raymond Jim Grey Jim Grey See fewer	The Error of Omission (1912)
Helen Dunbar Mrs. Grey Mrs. Grey See fewer	Siege (1925)
Mildred Weston Actress Actress See fewer	A Record Romance (1912)
Maude Leone Actress Actress See fewer	Her Masterful Man (1912)