The Rural Demons

1914

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Gertrude Selby in The Rural Demons (1914)

Billie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. They vie for her hand, duel with eggs and bricks, until one makes a getawa... Read allBillie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. They vie for her hand, duel with eggs and bricks, until one makes a getaway with the girl in a car, the other close behind.Billie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. They vie for her hand, duel with eggs and bricks, until one makes a getaway with the girl in a car, the other close behind.

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- Henry Lehrman
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5.2/10

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Director
- Henry Lehrman
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Billie Ritchie

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Gertrude Selby

The Farmer's Daughter

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deickemeyer

It is a hummer in every way

Here is one of Mack Sennett's comedy pictures. It is a hummer in every way. It has a regular rural twang and never hesitates from start to the finish. It embraces all kinds of characters, including a fractious goose. There is a bomb effect, a chase and a wind-up where everybody gets soaked but the cameraman, in the river. If you want a good laugh see it. - The Moving Picture World, March 21, 1914

5boblipton

Billie Ritchie Against Everyone

Billie Ritchie and Henry Lehrman are a couple of rustics competing for the favor of farmgirl Gertrude Selby. Another suitor comes into play, and the competition rises from throwing eggs to fighting with tires.

Ritchie, if he is remembered these days, is thought to be another Chaplin imitator. Like Chaplin, he came from the Fred Karno troupe in Britain. He was senior to Chaplin,and claimed that Chaplin was imitating him. Under the direction of Henry Lehrman, he played a thoroughly disagreeable character caught up in a whirlwind of chaotic slapstick. Sometimes it was very funny. Here, alas, it is also mildly disgusting.