Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies

Name: Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies
Director: Larry Semon
Released: 1917
Cast: Larry Semon, Florence Curtis, Joe Rock, Pietro Aramondo, Earl Montgomery

1917 Directed by Larry Semon

About Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies

Larry takes a man's car without meaning to and drives off with the man's girlfriend still in it. The police chase him for the theft and the kidnapping he did not plan.

Cast & crew

More about Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies

Larry Semon directed and plays Larry. C. Graham Baker wrote the scenario with him. Albert E. Smith presented the one-reel Big V Comedy. Florence Curtis plays Florence. Joe Simberg, Pietro Aramondo, Earl Montgomery, and Eddie Dunn are in the company. Vitagraph released it on 22 October 1917.

Themes

A car taken by mistake
A passenger who did not mean to come
A police chase after both
Larry Semon
Tin Lizzie
kidnapping
police chase
Florence Curtis
Big V Comedy

Making

Semon and Baker built the reel on one mistake: the wrong car, the wrong passenger, and a police chase that follows from both.

Music

Silent.

Preservation

A print exists.

Notes

A tin lizzie is a Model T. The title puts Semon's bad luck in one of those cars.
Semon stars here, unlike Rips and Rushes, which he directed the same year without appearing.
The Vitagraph credit sheet bills the short as a Big V Comedy.
A print exists and is in the public domain in the United States.
Silent Era notes a DVD without naming the edition.

Scenes

Larry drives off in another man's car and finds the man's girlfriend is still aboard.
The police take after him for a theft and a kidnapping he stumbled into.