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The Musical Marvel
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by [?] Robin Williamson and/or Ben Turpin?
Cast: Ben Turpin [the piano player], Gypsy Abbott [his wife], Ed Laurie (Edward J. Laurie) [the western bad man], Arthur Moon
Vogue Films, Incorporated, production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Released 11 February 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The piano player falls in love with the wife of the bad man. The bad man meets the piano player and tells him that his wife is in the east; and so they decide to go and find her, the pianist not realizing who the girl is. Later Ben, the pianist, becomes the leader of the orchestra and gets into a fight with the violinist. The comedy ends with a chase, a wrecked theater and a bomb explosion which sends them all sky high.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 October 2022.
References: Spehr-American pp. 4, 598 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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