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How Bill Squared It with His Boss
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Edward Dillon
Cast: Tammany Young [Bill], Tod Browning [James Hadley], Fay Tincher [Ethel], Baldy Belmont (Joseph Belmont) [Bill’s father], Mrs. W.H. Brown (Lucille Browne), Miss Carson, Miss Crawford (Florence Crawford), Mrs. Arthur Mackley (Julia Mackley)
Komic Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Released 19 July 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The second film in the “Bill the Office Boy” series.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Reel Life, 18 July 1914, page ?] Mr. Hadley, Bill’s employer, shows Bill a picture of Alice Mordaunt, his fiancée, and tells his office boy to admit her at once when she arrives. Bill goes out to lunch and returns to finds his employer kissing Ethel, Hadley’s sister. Bill is properly horrified at such duplicity, but, faithful at all times to his employer, attempts to slip in a note warning his boss to get the “other dame” out of the way when Alice arrives. Alice, however, intercepts the note, sees Hadley kissing a strange woman and leaves in a rage. Hadley hurriedly explains things to Bill and sends him after Alice, who, when everything is explained, is mollified and greets Ethel affectionately.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 8 August 1914, page ?] A comedy that will make friends for the exhibitor. Bill (Tammany Young), the boss (Tod Browning), and the stenographer (Fay Tincher) are all so funny that they only need to have a chance to make a good laugh. Then there is in the situation a spontaneous fun that is wholly contagious and it makes one of those thoroughly delightful offerings that are certain money-getters for all who exploit them. A dandy offering.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Office boys
Listing updated: 12 November 2022.
References: Skal-Browning p. 241 : Website-IMDb.
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