It's a Gift
About It's a Gift
Oil men looking for a new way to sell fuel send for inventor Pollard, who has a gasoline substitute. His house is already full of machines of his own making. When the message arrives he climbs into a magnet car and sets off to demonstrate the invention. Marie Mosquini plays the girl who shares that household.
Cast & crew
More about It's a Gift
Hugh Fay directed and Hal Roach produced. Pathé Exchange distributed the short. Wikipedia gives the release as 14 October 1923 and the running time as 14 minutes.
Themes
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Snub Pollard plays the inventor. William Gillespie is the oil man Weller Pump. Wallace Howe is a customer. Mark Jones is a swindler.
- Eddie Dunn plays a postman and is uncredited on the Wikipedia cast list.
- This short is not the 1934 W. C. Fields feature of the same title.
Scenes
- Pollard threads his own machines just to cross a room.
- He drives the magnet car out to meet the oil company.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (It's a gift (1923).webm)
