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This Way Out
(1916) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Bobby Burns and Walter Stull
Cast: Bobby Burns [Pokes], Walter Stull [Jabbs], Babe Hardy (Oliver Hardy) [Plump], Billy Ruge [Runt], Ethel Burton (Ethel Marie Burton), Spook Hanson (Frank Hanson), Helen Gilmore
Vim Comedy Film Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Louis Burstein. / Released 7 January 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Hotel men have their troubles and the Eagle Hotel is no exception. All the help have quit and the place is in pandemonium. Something must be done and quick. The clerk rushes out. Plump and Runt are plying their trade, street cleaning. The clerk rushes out, sees them, brings them into the hotel and presses them into service as porter and bellboy. Baths are being rung for and ice water, too. The new crew starts to work, and after administering a bath to the cranky old grouch who had been ringing for an hour for ice water and eating part of the cake that the waitress had baked for her sweetheart, the clerk, order is once more restored. Jabbs and his wife arrive at the hotel accompanied by mother-in-law. They are no sooner in their room, when a telegram calling Jabbs out of town arrives. Mother-in-law and wifey accompany him to the station. On their return, an insipid flirt accosts them. He is repulsed, but follows them home, even into the hotel. The wife and mother-in-law ring for the porter and bellboy and demand protection, which is gladly given. In return, the porter and bellboy are treated sumptuously to cake and wine. Jabbs misses the train and returns home. He, being the first arrival after the porter and bellboy have agreed mutual protection, he is promptly ejected as the suspect. Jabbs must get into his room. He tries the ladder route, but is hustled out again. He secures a hamper, has himself expressed to the hotel, is delivered and signed for. The flirt, who has been in the room all this time, thinks it is about time to make his getaway and tries to get out just as wifey and mamma are returning. The porter and bellboy are again summoned and are going to throw the hamper down the stairs, when Jabbs emerges from it. Recognition takes place. The flirt is found, and but for the appeal of the women would have received a sound thrashing. So he quickly slinks away with the porters' words ringing in his ears, “This Way Out.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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