Worries and Wobbles
About Worries and Wobbles
A husband comes home drunk and meets his angry wife. He locks himself in his room. The room and the furniture seem to move. She reads that vinegar in his brandy will cure him at one stroke. A thief breaks into the bedroom. Police, the drunk, and the thief chase one another. The police catch him as he tries to hide in a wooden box.
Cast & crew
More about Worries and Wobbles
Larry Semon directed. C. Graham Baker wrote the scenario with him. Albert E. Smith presented it. Vitagraph released it on 13 August 1917. Jimmy Aubrey plays the wandering boy. Alice Mann plays the wife. Earl Montgomery, Pietro Aramondo, Eddie Dunn, and Joe Rock are in the company. An EYE Filmmuseum copy runs 13 minutes 16 seconds.
Themes
Making
Semon stages the drunk's room as a trick set: walls and objects shift while he is locked in, then the reel turns into a chase once the thief arrives.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
EYE Filmmuseum holds a print, FLM7472. The copy runs 13 minutes 16 seconds.
Notes
- EYE's synopsis has the wife doctor the brandy with vinegar while he is locked in with the moving furniture.
- The chase brings in a squad of police, not just the married pair.
- The arrest comes when he tries to hide in a wooden box.
- Silent Era leaves Semon's own appearance as unconfirmed. Aubrey carries the drunk.
- The EYE catalog number is FLM7472.
Scenes
- He locks the door and the room, plus the objects in it, starts to move.
- She pours vinegar into the brandy after reading the cure in a book.
- Police pull him out of a wooden box at the end of the chase.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Worries and Wobbles, EYE FLM7472)
- EYE Filmmuseum
