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Bill’s Job
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon)
Cast: Tammany Young [Bill], Tod Browning [Mr. James Hadley], Fay Tincher [Ethel], Andy Rice [a client], Baldy Belmont (Joseph Belmont) [Bill’s father], Mae Washington (Eleanor Washington) [Bill’s mother], George A. Beranger (André Beranger)
Komic Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Paul West. / Released 5 July 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The first film in the “Bill the Office Boy” series.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Reel Life, 11 July 1914, page ?] Bill, a fourteen-year-old city-bred boy, answers an advertisement for an office boy. He finds a dozen other applicants for the place but manages to trick them into leaving in such clever fashion that James Hadley, the young lawyer who advertised, is delighted and engages him at once. Bill resolves to make business for his boss and corrals an old man in the hall who is looking for a certain lawyer. Despite the old man’s protests, Bill hustles him into Hadley’s office where the young lawyer quickly convinces the old fellow that he is just the man to handle the important case. Hadley gets a libel retainer from the corporation which the old man represents and handles the case so well that he is appointed chief of the legal staff of the concern.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Attorneys - Clients - Lawyers - Office boys
Listing updated: 7 February 2016.
References: Skal-Browning pp. 239-240 : Website-IMDb.
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