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Bungling Bill, Detective (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short

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Bungling Bill, Detective (1916)

Short | Comedy, Short

Bungling Bill reads in the papers that the fashionable Hotel St. Clare requires the services of an experienced man as Hotel Detective, and applying for the position, he is hired to discover who is stealing money from the room of the guests...See moreBungling Bill reads in the papers that the fashionable Hotel St. Clare requires the services of an experienced man as Hotel Detective, and applying for the position, he is hired to discover who is stealing money from the room of the guests. A bad man from the west registers at the hotel with his wife, and Bill, not impressed with his looks, follows him to his room and spies upon him. The Bad Man distills and causes Bill to make a hasty get-away down to the hall to the tune of his forty-four. As gunplay is out of Bungling Man's line he interviews the manager, and tenders his resignation. Upon the offer of a thousand dollars to get the Bad Man from the hotel. Bill is induced to continue on the job, and obtaining access to the room above the Bad Man he bores a hole in the floor and spies upon him in this manner. The plaster falling upon the gentleman from the wild and woolly, aggravates him so that he goes to the room above him and makes the occupant and innocent fat person dance to the music of his smoke wagon, while Bill is hiding under the Fat Man's bed. The Bad Man returning to his room accidentally enters the room of the soubrette and orders a drink from the bell boy. Bill, coming from under the bed, takes the wallet from the Fat Man and departs with it, and going down the stairs he learns of the Bad Man's flirtation and informs his wife of it. Things happen fast and furious after this, with the result that Bill us caught with the Fat Man's wallet, and forced to flee from the hotel, with police and guests pursuing him. As usual he doubles on his pursuers during the chase and makes a resolution to avoid all positions where the science of crime detection is required. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Paddy McGuire Bungling Bill - Detective Bungling Bill - Detective See fewer	A Broadway Cowboy (1920)
Jack Gaines The Bad Man The Bad Man See fewer	A Mixup at Rudolph's (1916)
Merta Sterling The Bad Man's Wife The Bad Man's Wife See fewer	Paid to Love (1927)
Jack Connolly The Clerk (as Jack Connelly) The Clerk (as Jack Connelly) See fewer	Milady o' the Beanstalk (1918)
Louise Owen The Soubrette The Soubrette See fewer	Igorrotes, Crocodiles and a Hat Box (1916)