Some Shimmiers
About Some Shimmiers
On the night Eddie's girl announces her engagement, she insists on a slumming party. Eddie checks the dive called Jim's Place, and then Lee knocks a man to the floor and the girl flirts with him. Eddie punches Lee, pays him $25 to pretend the fight was an act, and is told Lee wants the girl instead. She says she loves Lee for his strength, then pays him more to drop the act. Lee sends Eddie off with her and tells him a woman likes to be treated rough once in a while.
Cast & crew
More about Some Shimmiers
Eddie Lyons directed and plays Eddie. Lee Moran plays Lee. Universal Weekly of January 10, 1920 printed the plot. The Dutch release title on the EYE Filmmuseum copy is Boevenliefde.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Preservation
The EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam holds the print used for the Open Images copy, under the Dutch title Boevenliefde.
Notes
- Mildred Moore and John George are in the catalog cast. The Universal Weekly synopsis calls the girl Mildred.
- The EYE print runs 15 minutes 11 seconds and came to Wikimedia Commons through the Open Images project.
- Eddie pays Lee $25, and Mildred adds another $25 to end the act.
- Lee Moran and Eddie Lyons were the billed pair on this Universal one-reeler.
Scenes
- Lee knocks a man down in Jim's Place and Eddie's girl plays up to him.
- Eddie hands Lee $25 for the fake fight, and Lee says he wants the girl.
- Mildred pays Lee extra, and he tells Eddie to take her away.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Some Shimmiers-Eddie Lyons Lee Moran 1920 Universal-EYE FLM8337 OB 685721-720 x 404.ogv)
