Jerry's Soft Snap
Jerry's sweetheart is cook for a newlywed family and she "tips him off" to the fact that they have just discharged their gardener and need a new one, advising him to apply at her employer's office. Jerry acts upon her advice and arrives at Newlywed's office just after Newlywed's fat brother has arrived on a visit. As Mrs. Newlywed has never met the "little brother," Newlywed writes him a letter of introduction to his wife. He then hires Jerry as gardener and writes a letter for him to his wife. Owing to a "clerical error" the letters get mixed up and Jerry gets the brother's and the brother gets Jerry's. Then things begin to happen. Jerry is received by the young wife with open arms as her husband's brother. The "little brother," who is cursed with a terrible appetite, is put to work in the garden and, driven by hunger, proceeds to help himself to eatables and gets into a row with the housemaid. The young wife's attentions to Jerry arouses the cook's jealousy, and not knowing the reason for said attentions, she attacks Jerry with a loaded sugar bowl and puts him temporarily out of commission. She then telephones the husband and he, in turn, filled with murderous jealousy, arrives on the scene and fills Jerry, the brother and an intruding policeman full of bird shot, before the mistake in the letters is discovered and nobody killed.
- Released
- 1917
Details
Release year: 1917
Storyline
Jerry's sweetheart is cook for a newlywed family and she "tips him off" to the fact that they have just discharged their gardener and need a new one, advising him to apply at her employer's office. Jerry acts upon her advice and arrives at Newlywed's office just after Newlywed's fat brother has arrived on a visit. As Mrs. Newlywed has never met the "little brother," Newlywed writes him a letter of introduction to his wife. He then hires Jerry as gardener and writes a letter for him to his wife. Owing to a "clerical error" the letters get mixed up and Jerry gets the brother's and the brother gets Jerry's. Then things begin to happen. Jerry is received by the young wife with open arms as her husband's brother. The "little brother," who is cursed with a terrible appetite, is put to work in the garden and, driven by hunger, proceeds to help himself to eatables and gets into a row with the housemaid. The young wife's attentions to Jerry arouses the cook's jealousy, and not knowing the reason for said attentions, she attacks Jerry with a loaded sugar bowl and puts him temporarily out of commission. She then telephones the husband and he, in turn, filled with murderous jealousy, arrives on the scene and fills Jerry, the brother and an intruding policeman full of bird shot, before the mistake in the letters is discovered and nobody killed.
Top credits
- George Ovey — Jerry
- Claire Alexander — Betty
- Edna Hamilton — Kitty
- J.J. Hayes — John