Seeing Double

Name: Seeing Double
Director: Eddie Lyons
Released: 1923
Duration: 11 min
Cast: Eddie Lyons

1923 11 minutes (reconstructed print) Directed by Eddie Lyons

About Seeing Double

A prince comes to town. His assistant sees a newsboy who looks exactly like him, locks the prince in a hotel room, and sends the newsboy to a formal dinner in the prince's place. The prince gets out. Both of them turn up at the party.

Cast & crew

Eddie Lyons Director

More about Seeing Double

Eddie Lyons directed and plays both the newsboy and the English prince. Arthur Hotaling is credited with the story. Film listings date the short August 9, 1923.

Themes

A double
A locked hotel room
A dinner that gets two princes
Eddie Lyons
newsboy
prince
lookalike
dinner party

Music

Silent.

Preservation

The circulating reconstruction is missing its title cards.

Notes

A reconstruction posted by Dave Glass runs 10 minutes 37 seconds and was cut together from two prints.
Glass writes that the title cards are missing from both prints he used.
The reason the assistant makes the switch is not explained in the surviving picture.

Scenes

The assistant spots the newsboy and locks the real prince in the hotel room.
The prince escapes, and both doubles arrive at the dinner.