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  • A Temperance Lesson (1915)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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A Temperance Lesson (1915)
Short | Comedy, Short
John Hammond is a wealthy gentleman of advanced years who has married a young and pretty wife. Shortly after their marriage an old friend of Hammond sends him two bottles of very choice liquor as a present. Mr. Hammond calls the servants ...See moreJohn Hammond is a wealthy gentleman of advanced years who has married a young and pretty wife. Shortly after their marriage an old friend of Hammond sends him two bottles of very choice liquor as a present. Mr. Hammond calls the servants in and cautions them against any one of them daring to touch a drop of this precious fluid. No sooner has he gone to his office when the servants, one at a time, come in to test the liquor, with the result that each becomes not ingloriously, but quite obviously, under the influence. On his return home, he finds the household in a sad condition and one of the bottles empty. Rescuing the second bottle, which has not yet been taken from its wrapper, he takes it to his office and locks it in the safe. That night his wife is taken sick and the doctor prescribes a dose of this particular brand of liquor. Mr. Hammond hastens to his office, opens his safe, and secures the bottle, but is mistaken for a burglar by a watchful policeman, and is pursued to his home. Arriving there, he explains to the officer. Finding that his wife in the meantime has recovered, and convinced that intoxicants are not proper things to have in the house, he makes the officer a present of the bottle. Outside the officer and a friend proceed to open the precious package, only to find that the bottle is grape juice. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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John B. O'Brien
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Updated Mar 9, 1915
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Mar 9, 1915 (United States)

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Spottiswoode Aitken
John Hammond John Hammond   See fewer
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Claire Anderson
Mrs. John Hammond Mrs. John Hammond   See fewer
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