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  • Peterson's Pitiful Plight (1916)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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Peterson's Pitiful Plight (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy
High-life and the sweet charms of femininity are expensive as Peterson ultimately learns. His path through life is fairly paved with creditors, including a woman. After having promised the latter to marry her, to get rid of her importunity...See moreHigh-life and the sweet charms of femininity are expensive as Peterson ultimately learns. His path through life is fairly paved with creditors, including a woman. After having promised the latter to marry her, to get rid of her importunity, he falls in love with his new bookkeeper, Rosemary. He insists on taking her out to lunch and on these journeys has much ado to avoid encountering his creditors. To get rid of them temporarily he convinces them that Rosemary is a millionairess and that after marrying her, he will repay them with compound interest. He then makes haste to propose to her and she accepts him. A fortnight after the wedding, Peterson and Rosemary are in the seventh heaven of bliss. Then things begin to happen. His creditors begin invading his home, at first singly, then in twos, then in battalions. He manages to introduce them as uncles and granduncles and has the "pleasure" of beholding his wife accord them a grand reception and embrace and kiss her "relations." When they leave, Rosemary requests them to come again and soon. His creditors monopolize his office and his time, his discarded sweetheart serves him with a summons, while a sheriff stands guard at his home with a warrant in his pocket. He is placed under arrest, but the sheriff consents to go with him to give him a chance to take leave of his wife. He introduces the sheriff as a business friend of his with whom he must start out on a business trip without delay. They have hardly left the house when they are encountered by numerous other sheriffs, each one flashing a warrant for Peterson's arrest. Each claims him as his own and he is pulled hither and thither between them. Finally they decide to fight it out among themselves. The noise of the scuffle attracts Rosemary's attention who immediately hastens to her husband's assistance. At her sight Peterson decides to make his escape with her, irrespective of consequence. Pulling Rosemary after him he makes a dash for liberty. He discovers that running a blockade is not the easiest thing in the world. Whichever way he turns he encounters sheriffs and creditors. At last when he is in imminent danger of being capture, he spies an auto and by means of it breaks through the cordon of his pursuers. They escape and begin life anew. Peterson is given a severe lecture to which he listens penitently, vowing never to accumulate another past. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Writer
Lloyd Lonergan (scenario) (as Lloyd F. Lonergan)
Producer
Edwin Thanhouser
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Updated Jun 3, 1916
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Jun 3, 1916 (United States)

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Bert Delaney's primary photo
Bert Delaney
Peterson Peterson   See fewer
The Net (1916)
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Gladys Leslie
Mrs. Peterson Mrs. Peterson   See fewer
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Elise Jordan
Peterson's Former Sweetheart Peterson's Former Sweetheart   See fewer
Silas Marner (1916)
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