"Weary" William, who is hungry and obsessed with a desire to make some easy money, hits upon a really excellent idea. The inspiration comes when he finds a stray pup, which appears to be in about the same fix as he, hungry and homeless. "Weary" appropriates the dog and plans his campaign.
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Gilbert M. Anderson Director
United States 07 September 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
26 September 1910
Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things.
01 August 1910
A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
29 July 1910
John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and photograph the mermaid.
24 August 1910
Getting his laundry from the Chinaman, "Honest Jim" spruces himself up in preparation to make a call on "Bess," with whom he is in love.
15 October 1910
The versatile Max Linder heads a novel chase in this film, the pursuers being three dogs, the pets of the comedian's fiancée.
01 March 1910
A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.
23 June 1910
It is a beautiful morning in Indian Summer, and White Doe is out in her birch bark canoe, engaged in a fishing expedition for food.
12 October 1910
In this instance Hank and Lank step into good fortune quite by accident. Pausing in front of a bargain dry-goods store, a young lady rushes up and asks Hank to hold her baby while she goes inside to make a few purchases.
07 April 1910
An early silent short comedy directed by William Haddock.
16 May 1910
An ailing woman is visited by her family doctor. This film was seized by Austrian authorities in 1911, and the fact was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, the Official Journal of Vienna.
17 January 1910
Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower of considerable wealth, the father of a girl child, and an old friend of the family, often surreptitiously helped them.
04 April 1910
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
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