A Cure for Pokeritis

1912 Comedy 13 minutes Directed by Laurence Trimble

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About A Cure for Pokeritis

George Brown will not give up his weekly poker game. His wife has her cousin stage a police raid on the table. John Bunny plays George. Flora Finch plays Mrs. Brown. Laurence Trimble directed the Vitagraph short.

Cast & crew

More about A Cure for Pokeritis

A Bunnygraph, one of the domestic one-reelers built around Bunny and Finch. The General Film Company released it on February 26, 1912. After Bunny's death in 1915 it was reissued as A Sure Cure for Pokeritis. Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge, Harry T. Morey, and James W. Morrison are billed.

Themes

  • A weekly poker game
  • A wife who sends in a fake raid
  • poker
  • John Bunny
  • Flora Finch
  • raid
  • Vitagraph

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • The raid is fake. The cousin supplies the police.
  • The reissue title adds the word Sure.
  • A copy is on the Internet Archive as ACureForPokeritis.
  • Bunny and Finch were billed as a pair. The shorts were called Bunnygraphs or Bunnyfinches.

Scenes

  • The cousin's men break in on the card table.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (ACureForPokeritis)

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