Two next-door neighbors read the same article that makes them smile. They talk about it through the window. Shortly after, a peddler visits them successively and sells them, to one a uniform of peace officer, to the other an Apache costume. The two men come out in disguise.
Watch the official Les deux Poltrons 1910 trailer in HD below.
France 03 October 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
17 July 1910
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
20 September 1910
Young clerk Harry Martin has valuables stolen by the thief Joinville planted on him by that rogue. The cops finding the hot stuff on him arrest Harry and he is sent up the river unjustly.
01 August 1910
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
09 June 1910
The young husband's irrational jealousy makes him suspicious of every attention bestowed upon his wife.
07 November 1910
Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy.
31 March 1910
A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?
12 February 1910
Mr. Josh Banks a ranchman, receives word that his niece, a pretty Chicago girl of eighteen, is on her way to make them a visit.
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.
04 April 1910
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
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.
05 May 1910
"Swift Arrow, a lithe and willowy Indian, leaving the encampment of his fellow braves, is well on his journey when he is thrown from his horse and receives a broken leg and injuries from which he is disabled and lies helpless and alone.
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