Their Social Splash (1915)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 1915-04-26
Director: Charles Avery , Arvid E. Gillstrom , F. Richard Jones
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Slim Summerville (1892–1946) , Dixie Chene , Charles Murray , Polly Moran , Frank Hayes , Harold Lloyd , Mabel Normand , Billie Bennett , Helen Carlyle , Billie Walsh
Runtime: 11 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Social Splash (United States of America) , Their Social Splash , The Fatal Wedding (United States of America) , Their Social Splash (United States of America)
Plot: Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.Harold Lloyd is credited as the minister, but I didn't spot him -- just another minor Keystone player waiting for a break that would come elsewhere. Charles Murray is doing his Hogan character, a low fellow who gets into all sorts of mischief that propels the comedy.Of most interest is an early example of a typical thrill comedy sequence, as Murray and Summerville -- the latter trying to kill the former -- walk across some high steel seemingly several hundred feet above the ground. This fear-of-falling gag would be a perpetual audience pleaser for several decades. If it doesn't look like much here, well, it's early days.
IMDB:tt0006150