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  • The Cop and the Anthem (1917)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
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The Cop and the Anthem (1917)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
"Soapy," a bum, is seeking winter quarters. From his chilly seat on a park bench he plots to be sent to the workhouse for six months. To effect this it is necessary for him to commit a misdemeanor and be arrested. So he fares forth to turn...See more"Soapy," a bum, is seeking winter quarters. From his chilly seat on a park bench he plots to be sent to the workhouse for six months. To effect this it is necessary for him to commit a misdemeanor and be arrested. So he fares forth to turn a trick that will procure him Tris desired refuge. He enters a cheap restaurant, eats a meal without paying, and is staggered to find that he is thwarted by the milk of human kindness. In the same way he begs, takes a free taxi ride, hurls a stone through a window, raises a disturbance on the street, dines at Delmonico's without a cent in his pockets, all to no effect. No one wants to be hard upon him. The thing is ludicrous, but fast becoming for "Soapy" a tragedy. Finally he stops to listen to an anthem being sung in a church, when he is taken away to prison by a cop who has decided that he is standing there for no good purpose. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Thomas R. Mills
Writers
O. Henry (story) | Edward J. Montagne
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Updated Jun 30, 1917
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Jun 1917 (United States)

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