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Pimple’s Past
Also known as Flivver’s Terrible Past in the USA
(1915) England
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Charles Weston?
Cast: Fred Evans [Pimple]
[?] Piccadilly Film Productions? production; distributed by [?] Browne? / Released May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, on 31 December 1915.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Pimple becomes a fugitive from the State jail. While journeying about town he passes a beer garden wherein are seated a group of people around a table. His throat suddenly becomes parched and he approaches them. He agrees to tell them a sad story of his past life, but before he can commence his thirst must be quenched, to which they readily assent. He then relates the story. While an engineer on the Chatham and Lancashire Line he met a woman passenger on his train for the first time, and immediately became enamored of her and she with him. She became a frequent passenger on his train and ere long she was his bride. They lived happily for a time, until one day he came home to his wife and was thrown out of the house by his wife’s former husband. While running his engine that evening along its usual course his fireman shouted, “Danger ahead,” and with a sudden jerk, he put on the brakes and leaped to the tracks below to investigate the cause of the holdup. He was astonished to see a woman, tied hand and foot, stretched across the track. He released her from her bonds and staggered when he gazed into her face and saw that it was his own wife Lizzie. Suddenly her husband came on the scene and she explained to Pimple that it was he who was responsible for this dastardly act. Pimple had prompted the villain to wreak vengeance on the hero, so he suggested a fight to the end for the hand of the woman. First, a duel in which the sword of each broke in the midst of the conflict, and then a fight with gloves, in which Pimple came out the victor, thus proving himself worthy of being espoused to Lizzie. As he finishes his story his jailer comes, and Pimple’s spree ends.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 November 2022.
References: Website-IMDb.
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