Captain Jinks' Cure

1917 Comedy Directed by Van Dyke Brooke

About Captain Jinks' Cure

Van Dyke Brooke directed this one-reel Vitagraph comedy. Frank Daniels plays Captain Jinks. Brooke plays a doctor, Grace Morse plays Jinks's wife, and Albert Schoenfeld plays her cousin. An attorney and a funeral director are also in the cast.

Cast & crew

More about Captain Jinks' Cure

Teresa Michelena, billed as Mrs. Walter Hitchcock, wrote the scenario. Greater Vitagraph released the one-reel comedy on 19 February 1917. Italian listings give the length as 300 meters.

Themes

  • A comic cure
  • Jinks, his wife, and her cousin
  • A doctor who is also in the story
  • Captain Jinks
  • Frank Daniels
  • doctor
  • one reel
  • Vitagraph
  • Grace Morse

Making

Michelena's scenario puts a doctor, a lawyer, and an undertaker around Daniels's Jinks. Brooke both directed and took the doctor's part.

Music

Silent.

Preservation

A print exists. Silent Era lists it as public domain in the United States.

Notes

  • Frank Daniels is Captain Jinks. Grace Morse is his wife. Albert Schoenfeld is her cousin.
  • Van Dyke Brooke, the director, plays the doctor.
  • Silent Era also lists an attorney and a funeral director, both uncredited.
  • Greater Vitagraph, the V-L-S-E combine, handled distribution.
  • A print exists. It is in the public domain in the United States.

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