Bangville Police
About Bangville Police
Della, a farm daughter, wishes the cow would calve. Left in the house, she hears men in the barn, telephones the police, and barricades the room. Her parents come home and have to break the door down, which she takes for the robbery. A smoking car brings the Bangville police. The fuss ends when they find a newborn calf.
Cast & crew
More about Bangville Police
Henry Lehrman directed and Mack Sennett produced. Mutual Film released the one-reeler in the United States on 24 April 1913. Wikipedia gives 8 minutes and calls it the seminal Keystone Cops short.
Themes
Preservation
Prints are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Mabel Normand plays Della. Fred Mace plays the sheriff of Bangville.
- The Keystone Cops ride to the farm in a car that pours smoke.
- The title is also given as The Bangville Police.
Scenes
- Della phones from behind a barred door.
- The police pile out of the smoking car.
- The barn holds a newborn calf, not thieves.
Also available
- Internet Archive (The_Bangville_Police_1913)
- Wikimedia Commons (Bangville Police (1913) .webm)
