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  • The Golden Boots (1916)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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The Golden Boots (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy
In a little house lives old Miser Tight and his wife. They are at breakfast. Miser Tight stows some money in an old boot, when his wife is from the room, and hangs it back upon the wall. Then he sets out to collect more rent from his ...See moreIn a little house lives old Miser Tight and his wife. They are at breakfast. Miser Tight stows some money in an old boot, when his wife is from the room, and hangs it back upon the wall. Then he sets out to collect more rent from his tenants. Near the house Weary Blink, a tramp, is reposing upon an ash heap. He awakens and sets out in search for food. He calls at Miser Tight's house, but the wife refuses to aid him, and after repeated attempts to secure food, she becomes exasperated and flings out the old shoe at the tramp. He finds the money in the shoe and sets out for the town to spend it. He tries repeatedly at the different stores, but the merchants, alarmed at the sight of the roll of bills, think that he has stolen it, and they send for the detectives, who follow Weary Blink. Miser Tight arrives at the home of a poor laborer and demands his rent. The wife tells him that her husband works on the building opposite the little house, and Miser Tight sets out to get his money. Weary Blink leads the detectives and the police a merry chase, and in the officers' scramble for the money he gets away. It happens that he drops a bill directly beneath the scaffold on which the poor laborer is at work, and in the scramble for the money the scaffold falls and the man is injured. In the commotion the tramp is forgotten, and the hurt man carried into his little home. Miser Tight, not at all touched by the pathos of the scene, follows the crowd there and demands the money. When the crowd has left, Weary Blink, who has sneaked into the rear of the house for protection, hears the brutal miser hounding the injured man. Blink enters the room, pays the landlord off and deposits him on the street below. Then, realizing that he has caused the accident to befall the man, he showers the remainder of the money on the bed and goes on his way, leaving the little family rejoicing. In the lumber yards, where he sits down to rest, he looks at the boot which contained so much, and yet so little for him, and falls asleep. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
William Bowman
Writers
William Bowman (story) | Olga Printzlau (scenario)
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Updated Jun 16, 1916
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Jun 16, 1916 (United States)

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Albert MacQuarrie's primary photo
Albert MacQuarrie
Weary Blink Weary Blink   See fewer
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J. Edwin Brown
Mr. Tight - the Miser (as Edwin Brown) Mr. Tight - the Miser (as Edwin Brown)   See fewer
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Mary Haines
Mrs. Tight - the Miser's Wife Mrs. Tight - the Miser's Wife   See fewer
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