Help! Help!

1912 Comedy 8 minutes Directed by Mack Sennett

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About Help! Help!

Mrs. Suburbanite thinks burglars are breaking in and telephones her husband at the office. Mr. Suburbanite tries to race home in a chauffeur-driven car. The short mocks the rescue races in films such as The Lonely Villa. Fred Mace and Mabel Normand play the couple. Alfred Paget and W. C. Robinson play the burglars.

Cast & crew

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Mack Sennett directed. Biograph released it on April 11, 1912. It runs 8 minutes. Dell Henderson and Edward Dillon play office workers. Cooper C. Graham's D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company lists the date.

Themes

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • Mace is Mr. Suburbanite. Normand is Mrs. Suburbanite.
  • The car, not a train, is how he tries to get home.
  • Paget and Robinson are the burglars she thinks she hears.
  • A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-help-help.

Scenes

  • She telephones the office.
  • He sets off in the chauffeur's car and the rush falls apart.

Influenced by

  • The Lonely Villa (1909)

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-help-help)

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