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  • Tillie's Terrible Tumbles (1916)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Tillie's Terrible Tumbles (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short
Alice has to work hard to support a large family, the large family consisting of a husband who weighs in the neighborhood of three hundred and thirty-three pounds. Fat's supply of booze runs low, so he asks his wife for money and when she ...See moreAlice has to work hard to support a large family, the large family consisting of a husband who weighs in the neighborhood of three hundred and thirty-three pounds. Fat's supply of booze runs low, so he asks his wife for money and when she refuses he takes all her hard-earned savings and goes out. When he comes home he is "all the way under." Just about this time a little doggie takes a notion to wander in the neighborhood, and Alice thinks that it would be of more service as a dead dog than as a live one. So she takes a gun and fires at the mutt. But just at this time her hubby happens to come in and falls down when he hears the shot. Alice thinks that she has killed her man, and is horrified to find a few minutes later that the body has disappeared. The police arrive and accuse her of the crime. They find an old shoe in the stove, and this leads them to believe that Alice has killed the man and then burned up the body. In jail Alice bemoans her fate. But the situation is made much brighter when the friendly neighbor comes and offers to help her to escape. He changes places with her and she escapes in the uniform of a policeman. But a copper on the corner sees her and thinks that she does not swing her club at the professional angle, and so gives chase. Over roofs and barns they go until at last Alice is cornered on a flag pole. But the pole breaks and the two of them are thrown down and land in the execution room just as they are on the point of hanging the friend because the real culprit is not handy. Of course, when Alice arrives they take her instead, but this breaks the heart of the neighbor, who really loves Alice. But at this moment Fat, who is still pickled, forcibly breaks into the death house and the proceedings have to be stopped as the murdered man has come to life. Then follows a general rough-house, which ends as Alice lassos her husband and drives him out into the street. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
John G. Blystone
Producer
Henry Lehrman
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Updated Sep 12, 1916
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Sep 12, 1916 (United States)

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