The Serenade
About The Serenade
Plump and Runt, street musicians in the same house, are both after Florence, the bandleader's daughter. Plump cannot get a note out of his French horn because a kitten is inside it. Runt's clarinet drives the woman downstairs and the grouch upstairs to distraction. She throws a pail through his wall. Plump finds Florence with Runt, blasts him out of the room with the horn, and later blows a bucket of water, dumped on the band, back up the horn.
Cast & crew
More about The Serenade
Willard Louis directed the one-reel Plump and Runt comedy. Louis Burstein produced it for Vim. General Film Company released it on 2 March 1916. Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, plays Plump. Billy Ruge plays Runt. Florence McLaughlin and Billy Bletcher are in the cast. The Library of Congress holds it under the title Jim The Serenade.
Themes
Making
Louis made it as a Vim one-reeler built on two musicians and one horn. Hardy and Ruge are the billed rivals. Florence is the daughter they are both playing for.
Preservation
A print survives at the Library of Congress, catalogued as Jim The Serenade.
Notes
- A kitten has crawled into Plump's French horn, which is why the horn will not play.
- The woman downstairs throws a pail through the wall into Runt's room, then tries to shove a chair through the hole.
- Plump pounds the floor in jealousy and brings the ceiling down on her.
- Runt is blown through a washing line.
- The Library of Congress catalogues the surviving print as Jim The Serenade.
Scenes
- Plump sits on a trunk and cannot play because a kitten is in the French horn.
- A pail comes through the wall into Runt's room.
- Plump blows a dumped bucket of water back up the horn.
Also available
- Library of Congress (catalogued as Jim The Serenade)
