Mrs. Brown’s Burglar (1913)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 1913-12-23
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Carrie Clark Ward , Richard Cummings , Matty Roubert , Sidney De Gray , D. Mitsoras , William Nigh , Chester Conklin , John Rand
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Mrs. Brown's Burglar (United States of America) , Mrs. Brown's Burglar
Plot: Brown was a married man who liked to go on sprees and stay out late. Mrs. Brown was well aware of his propensity, and did her best to curb it. While Brown, their ten-year-old son, had an exceeding fondness for jam and frequently raided the pantry, but when detected, invariably felt the weight of his parents' displeasure. Willie's likeness for jam was the first of a combination of circumstances which created "Mrs. Brown's Burglar." He was caught enjoying his favorite dainty and soundly spanked by his father, whereupon Brown departed for a night of gaiety. Willie's resentment towards his parents grew stronger. He knew his mother feared burglars, so he made a dummy with a suit of his father's clothes. He placed it under the bed in his parents' room and then summoned his mother. She promptly decided that the form under the bed was a burglar, and fled to a nearby drug store, where she telephoned the police, in the meantime, a passing tramp, noticing that the door of the Brown home was open, entered and went to sleep on the open bed. The policemen, summoned to the drug store, listened to Mrs. Brown's story and then hurried to the house. The tramp was a husky individual and he was more than a match for the three officers. While they wore struggling in the bedroom, the husband, much the worse for wear, entered his home. He heard the commotion upstairs, concluded, in his half-drunken condition, that burglars were in the house, and made his preparations. The officers, badly worsted in their fight with the hobo, fled helter-skelter down the stairs and were greeted by a volley of water from the garden hose. Finally they got the hose away from Brown and marched him off to the station. He was thrown into a cell, and had ample time to sober up and reflect upon his wrongs. Mrs. Brown, summoned to her husband's aid, proved that he was not a burglar, and Brown was released. Unfortunately for Willie, his parents discovered that he was the author of the burglar scare, and the trouncing he got was one that he long remembered, and he never, never touched jam again, not even when it was offered to him.
IMDB:tt0820975