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One to the Minute
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Jack Dillon (John Francis Dillon)
Cast: Frank Borzage [Dick], Neva Gerber [Gladys], William A. Carroll [the rajah], Rae Berger [Mr. Birch], Lucille Ward [Mrs. Birch], Jack Dillon (John Francis Dillon)
American Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Beauty]. / Released 2 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? After Dick had called on his sweetheart, Gladys, and found that an East Indian Rajah had the inside track in her parents’ favor, after he had been frostily treated by said parents, while the Rajah was made much of, is it any wonder that sitting at his club, he should venture the gloomy remark that “there’s a tool born every minute?” A stranger with a wristwatch and a peculiar way of consulting it, who introduced himself to Jones, challenged this remark. Dick and he argue and to show how gullible humans are, Dick bets $100 he can steal a piece of jewelry from every man in the next room without being detected. A page of the club, who is given the stakes to hold, is the only witness of the wager. Jones watches approvingly as Dick deftly nips a tie pin from this man, a watch from that one, cuff links from another. He returns to Jones with a handful of jewelry which he places on the table. At this juncture a page announced a hurry-up phone call for Dick. Dick returns, Jones is gone. The clubmen miss their jewelry and Dick smilingly tells them he’ll produce it, but it is gone, with Jones and the page. On the table is a note signed Jones, thanking him for the jewelry, and saying that Dick has proved his point. There is a fool born every minute. The angry club members vote Dick out of the club. Dick in a very gloomy mood passes Gladys’ home. The Rajah is about to take Gladys and her parents for an auto ride. Dick, watching, sees the Rajah consult a wrist watch with a peculiar arm motion. Dick springs upon the Rajah and after a tussle, knocks off the turban and beard. It is Jones. A policeman takes all, including Gladys and her indignant parents, to the station house. There the lieutenant takes one look at the Rajah and congratulates Dick on capturing “Wrist Watch Walter,” society thief, for whose capture there is a reward of $2,000. Of course Gladys’ parents smile on Dick. At the club Dick is reinstated and is a hero. “The reward? Oh, yes,” he says, “I’m using that to start a fund to reduce the number of chumps born every hour.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 20 April 2024.
References: ClasIm-220 p. 40 : Website-IMDb.
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