Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
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Harry T. Morey as Jack Breen - a Fake Beggar
Julia Swayne Gordon as Lizzie Breen - Jack's Wife & Accomplice
Robert Gaillard as 1st Detective
Dorothy Kelly as 2nd Detective
Mary Maurice as Jennie Corcoran
Joseph Baker as Jack Williams
United States 27 May 1913
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27 July 1913
Neilan, an architect, young and ambitious, having graduated with honors, procures a position as assistant in the city architect's office.
01 June 1913
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Broncho Billy is in love with Agnes Shephard. The jealousy of the step-sister Evelyn arouses in her a scheme which, if carried out, would result in the breaking of the engagement.
12 August 1913
The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart.
14 April 1913
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
26 September 1913
In this one, Max is engaged to a girl -- called, as in all his shorts, 'Jane' -- and she loves her pussycat.
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Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border.
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