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Tightwad’s Predicament
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Dell Henderson
Cast: Charles Murray [Tightwad], Kate Toncray [Tightwad’s wife], Gus Pixley [the tramp], Clarence L. Barr (Clarence Barr) [one of the wife’s friends], Sylvia Ashton [one of the wife’s friends], William J. Butler [the cleaner], Edward Dillon [the policeman]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Dell Henderson. / Released 13 March 1913; in a split-reel with The Spring of Life (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Tightwad refuses his wife’s request for pin-money, and, as she has promised to accompany friends on a shopping tour, she is determined to raise some money some way or other. Her plan to do so causes a bunch of trouble for Tightwad and teaches him a lesson that will make him more generous in the future.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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