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  • Settled Out of Court (1916)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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Settled Out of Court (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy
Old Darby and Joan, after sixty years of married life, reach the conclusion that they "jess can't get along" and together they go in search of a divorce. Joan alleges that Darby persists in smoking a foul-smelling cob pipe. Darby ...See moreOld Darby and Joan, after sixty years of married life, reach the conclusion that they "jess can't get along" and together they go in search of a divorce. Joan alleges that Darby persists in smoking a foul-smelling cob pipe. Darby countercharges that Joan insists he dress up, "even if they ain't no company." It's a case of "draw up your papers lawyer" as the two, wrangling, leave the attorneys office. Soon after a stranger enters and asks for old Darby and Joan. The lawyer vouchsafes the information that the two are about to be divorced. The stranger proves to be the son of the aged couple, returned from a life of wandering. To the lawyer he relates how his boyhood fondness for yellow-backed novels and a longing for the wild and woolly west "where the Redskins bite the dust" led him to run away from home. He had resolved never to return, but as the years sped on, the young man who had struck it rich, fearing that his parents might be in need, had returned to seek the shelter of the parental roof once more. Darby and Joan return to the lawyer's office to sign the papers. The attorney informs them that the young stranger is his partner who will handle their case. The young man tactfully strikes a sympathetic chord when he asks if the two have children. He continues in this strain and tearfully old Darby and Joan decide that they don't need a divorce. "What we need," said Darby, "is jess a little horse sense," and arm in arm the aged couple leave for their home. Joan presents Darby with a new corn cob pipe and Darby appears "all dressed up even if they ain't no company." Just then the young "lawyer" drops in, their runaway boy returned home. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Archer MacMackin
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Updated Jan 1, 1916
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Jan 1, 1916 (United States)

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