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A Close Call
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Mack Sennett
Cast: Fred Mace [a street faker], Dell Henderson [a street faker], Kate Bruce [the nurse], Grace Henderson [the mother], Frank Opperman [the father], Edward Dillon [Jasper; and a man in blackface], Charles Hill Mailes [the man in the crowd], Frank Evans [the man in the crowd], Sylvia Ashton [the mother; and a woman in the crowd], William Beaudine [a man in the crowd], Charles Avery [the man holding a mirror], Harry Hyde [the man in the lynch mob], J. Jiquel Lanoe [the man in the lynch mob], Florence Lee [the woman in the lynch mob], Charles West [the man in the lynch mob], Kathleen Butler, Alfred Paget, [?] Linda Arvidson?, [?] D.W. Griffith?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Grace Henderson and Florence Lee. Assistant director, William Beaudine. / Released 23 May 1912; in a split-reel with Helen’s Marriage (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A couple of street fakers fail to draw a crowd, so decide to change their act, one of them blacking up and singing coon songs. This might have gotten the crowd had not the blacked-up singer been mistaken for a colored fellow, who was suspected of a kidnapping. His neck is saved by the child being found by the nurse, who had allowed it to stray away.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 20 December 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb.
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