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Hired and Fired
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Wallace Beery
Cast: Carter De Haven [Timothy Dobbs], Viola Smith (Vola Vale) [Mary], Robert Milasch [Jeff Jenkins], Mina Cunard [the leading lady]
Nestor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Bess Meredyth. / Released 17 September 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The fifth film in the “Timothy Dobbs, That’s Me!” series.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? As Timothy is standing in front of a theater, dead broke, a couple of swell girls come along and go in. He has not the price to himself, but he waits until they come out and then speaks to them. The girls are happy when they learn that he is a real movie actor. He says that he would take them to lunch were it not for the fact that his car is broken, and is almost taken off his feet when the girls say that they will take him any place he wants to go. So after stalling a few times he at last has to go to a swell café and order a dinner with wine. During the meal he makes the mistake of calling one of the most prominent of the directors a doctor, but manages to get out of the scrape. But the shock comes when the bill arrives. Timothy has nothing in his pocket but a collar button, and it is quite a task to pay a twelve-dollar check with a collar button. But our hero is not at all daunted. An idea comes to him and he throws a fit to get out of paying the bill. The next day he manages to get in the studio, and whom should he meet but his friends of the preceding day. And it so happens that they just need a man of Timothy’s size to take a part, and Timothy gets a job. As a cowboy he nearly drives the directors to drink. But having started the picture with him they cannot change, and so it happens that Timothy at last sees his name in big type in front of a theater. He loses no time in calling up his friends, and they are delighted to go to see the picture with one of the actors who produced it. Outside the theater he bribes the usher to come in and call out that Mr. Dobbs is wanted on the ’phone. This he does and the audience applauds when the actor rises. But the picture is the limit, and soon all the people come out before it is over. Timothy is now as chagrined as he was elated before, and sees the man take down the poster with his name on it. And to cap the climax the waiter whom he cheated out of the bill sees him and comes to arrest him with a policeman. But the intrepid Jeff once more rushes off with our hero, and so saves him from the ignominy of an arrest.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 October 2022.
References: Website-IMDb.
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