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  • His Suicide (1914)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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His Suicide (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy
Bill Bogs is tired of life, also tired of his wife. She abuses him dreadfully and won't lend him the clothes line to hang himself with. Instead she makes him put the line back and then hang out the clothes, but Bill gets tangled in a sheet...See moreBill Bogs is tired of life, also tired of his wife. She abuses him dreadfully and won't lend him the clothes line to hang himself with. Instead she makes him put the line back and then hang out the clothes, but Bill gets tangled in a sheet and musses it up and she jumps on him for the fifty-sixth time He goes into the house and gets a gun, but she demands what he means by getting the place all mussed up. The knife route is denied him because he picked out the best carving knife, which Myra had just sharpened. However, he wanders down the street and gets an idea. He buys a quart of gasoline and goes back home to drink it all. Then he blows on lighted matches until he explodes. Sympathetic bystanders affected by Myra's grief until she explains that she is weeping because Bill carried no fire insurance. They drop her to the cold ground and leave her alone with her great sorrow. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Writer
E.W. Sargent (story) (as Epes W. Sargent)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Dec 22, 1914
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Dec 22, 1914 (United States)

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