Domestic Difficulties
About Domestic Difficulties
Mutt’s wife is out for the night and makes him promise to stay in the apartment. He goes to a bar with Jeff instead. He comes home drunk and does not get in unnoticed. She is waiting, beats him, and throws him out the window.
Cast & crew
More about Domestic Difficulties
Bud Fisher directed this silent Mutt and Jeff cartoon, one of the early films from his strip. Raoul Barré and Charles Bowers produced it with him and share the writing credit. Barré Studio made it in 1916.
Themes
Making
Barré and Bowers, who were making Fisher’s characters into films, share producer and writer credit with him.
Music
Silent.
Notes
- Mutt and Jeff are the comic-strip pair Fisher drew.
- The gag is a broken promise, a bar, and a wife with the last move.
- The English Wikipedia describes the beating and the throw from the window as a depiction of spousal abuse.
- It is drawn animation, not a live-action short.
Scenes
- Mutt leaves for the bar with Jeff after promising to stay in.
- His wife throws him out the window.
Influenced by
- Bud Fisher’s Mutt and Jeff comic strip
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-domestic-difficulties)