The Weak-End Party
About The Weak-End Party
A society dinner has thirteen guests. The gardener, Stanley, is pulled in so the number will be fourteen. He tries to behave like a guest. The caretaker's supervisor and one of the guests are planning to steal the hosts' jewels. Stan stops the theft without knowing that is what he is doing.
Cast & crew
More about The Weak-End Party
Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson directed and produced. Working title The Gardener. The surviving print is titled A Weak-End Party. Wikipedia lists Metro Pictures as the production company and a release of 2 October 1922, running 20 minutes. Silent Era lists a possible Quality or Amalgamated production, presented by Amalgamated and distributed by Metro. A circulating copy runs about 15 minutes 29 seconds.
Themes
Making
Anderson's company used the unlucky thirteenth guest as the excuse to put the gardener at the table.
Preservation
A print survives, titled A Weak-End Party on the film itself. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Stan Laurel plays the gardener. Marion Aye plays Lily, the birthday girl. Harry L. Rattenberry plays her father, Mr. Smith. Otto Fries plays the overseer.
- Colin Kenny is credited as the Good Samaritan on Wikipedia and as Monocle Charley on Silent Era. William Gillespie is Monocle Charlie on the Wikipedia cast list. Scotty MacGregor plays Pinkerton Burns.
- Babe London is a party guest. Silent Era also lists Edward Jefferson as the butler.
- The plot summary on Wikipedia is taken from Stan Laurel: A Bio-Bibliography by Okuda and Niebaur.
- A file is on Wikimedia Commons as A Weak-End Party (1922).webm.
Scenes
- Stanley is seated so the party will not have thirteen guests.
- He breaks up the jewel theft between the overseer and a guest without knowing the plan.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (A Weak-End Party (1922).webm)
