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Mr. Jack, the Hash Magnate
(1916) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by C.J. Williams
Cast: Frank Daniels [Jack Magee], Belle Bruce [Lizzy Potts], Edwina Robbins [Pansy Bullion]
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Ross D. Whytock. / Released 13 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Happy Jack, the popular Hash Magnate of Harlem, is suddenly seized with high social aspirations and decides to carry out his ideas, to the great dismay of Lizzy Potts, the cook, who loves Jack. He hires a full-dress outfit, plasters up his suitcase with canned goods labels and arrives in a taxi at the Giltmore, where he registers as Count Di Woppo. There he makes the acquaintance of Mrs. Pansy Bullion, a rich widow, who mistakes him for the Prince Di Gorgonzola, who is reported to be traveling incog. Being title-mad. she proposes and he dazedly accepts her. But the real Prince arrives and Jack has to fight a ferocious duel with him coming out victorious, through no fault of his own, for the Prince slips on a banana peel. But Lizzie, faithful Lizzie, is on his trail, and summons him back to the hash-house. Mrs. Bullion runs over a boy in her auto and takes refuge in Jack’s hashhouse, where she is horrified to see her erstwhile Prince behind the counter. She angrily hurls a dish of hash a him, but Lizzie springs for her and pulls off her false hair. Bald as a billiard ball, Mrs. Bullion dashes out and escapes amid the hoots and jeers of the assembled crowd, while Jack and faithful Lizzie fall into each other’s arms.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 October 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc.
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