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Live Wires and Love Sparks
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Henry Lehrman
Cast: Billie Ritchie [Bill ‘Billie’ Steel], Eva Nelson [Mrs. Bill Steel], Peggy Pearce [the neighbor], Gene Rogers [the collector], Eugene Pallette [an man with an envelope for Billie], Charles Inslee, Joe Murphy, Bert Roach
L-KO production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Released 19 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Billie Ritchie, who is blessed with a numerous family, many bills and a small income, has great trouble in avoiding his many creditors. His adventures are too numerous to mention. He is rather attracted to a neighbor who has a jealous husband, but his efforts to see her are interrupted by a mysterious man, who finally corners Billy and tells him that he wishes to hand him a legacy. Billy, who has employed various subterfuges in order to get a chance to talk to his fair neighbor, at last sees his opportunity and arranges with her to meet him at the telephone company’s masquerade. The wires get crossed and wifie becomes suspicious. She goes to the ball followed by her large family. These she masks and mixes in with the guests. Her husband’s gay actions finally cause him to become a storm center and in order to escape a mobilization of angry husbands he has to flee across the telegraph wires. They follow him and he is captured and punished after a spirited chase.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 1 December 2022.
References: Film viewing : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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