Wife and Auto Trouble

Name: Wife and Auto Trouble
Director: Dell Henderson
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1916
Cast: William Collier Sr., Blanche Payson, Joseph Belmont, Alice Davenport, Mae Busch

1916 Comedy 2 reels Directed by Dell Henderson

About Wife and Auto Trouble

A meek husband, played by William Collier Sr., buys a car that his wife and his mother-in-law do not want. Blanche Payson plays the wife and Alice Davenport the mother-in-law. The purchase pulls in a stenographer, a restaurant, and the Keystone Kops.

Cast & crew

More about Wife and Auto Trouble

Dell Henderson directed. Mack Sennett produced. Triangle Film Corporation released the two-reeler on March 5, 1916. Mae Busch plays a speedy stenographer.

Themes

A meek husband
A new automobile
In-laws
A tangle with the police
Keystone
automobile
mother-in-law
Keystone Kops
stenographer

Preservation

Prints are held at the Library of Congress and in private collections.

Notes

Joseph Belmont plays the husband's brother-in-law.
Jimmy Bryant, Joseph Callahan, Billy Gilbert, and Al Kaufman appear as policemen with the Keystone Kops.
Silent Era lists prints at the Library of Congress and in private collections, including 16mm and 8mm reductions.