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Murray, the Masher
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Otis B. Thayer (Otis Thayer)
Cast: Otis B. Thayer (Otis Thayer) [Martin Murray, the masher], Winifred Greenwood [Nellie Breen], Rex De Rosselli [Charley Breen], Adrienne Kroell [Carrie Carter], Edgar G. Wynn [Tom Carter], Clara Reynolds Smith (Clara Smith) [the housekeeper], Ed Streets [the expressman], Lillian Leighton [the old maid], Genie Barber [the clerk at the ribbon counter]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Edward McWade. / Released 28 June 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Murray, the masher, ogles Nellie, but she turns away, dropping a letter. He copies the address and returns it. Later, he overhears Carrie, Nellie’s friend, give her address to a clerk and notes it. He writes to both. They consult their husbands and he gets a letter to call. He pledges his watch to buy some flowers, which he gives to Nellie. Carrie arrives and he gives them to her, and tries to make love to both. Their husbands, Charley and Tom, are announced and they hide him under a chair cover. The men enter and tell what they will do if they catch him. They go out and their wives hustle Murray up a fire escape. A woman above gives him a warm reception. He retreats and the women decide to disguise him in the housekeeper’s old clothes and cut off half of his mustache. Charley and Tom enter and swear to shoot him on sight. Nellie and Carrie decide they must smuggle Murray out of the house and hide him in a large hamper with some old clothes over him. The hamper is dumped from floor to floor to the yard. An express man carries the party to where the hamper is thrown into a stream. Murray escapes from it only to he chased through a barb wire fence into the woods by Charley and Tom. In his room the masher resolves to “Never Again.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 June 2024.
References: Lahue-Selig p. 97 : Website-IMDb.
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