John R. Cumpson Movies

Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is...

A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He...

Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he...

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is...

A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.

A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds...

A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her.

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.

Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his...

Mr. Bumptious insists on wallpapering the parlor himself, in order to save money.

Billy is out for a stroll when he spies a prepossessing-looking young woman. He follows and she enters the office of a spiritualist. Producing a tip,...

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a...