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A Cure for Pokeritis is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Laurence Trimble released in USA on 31 december 1912 with John Bunny
A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 december 1912
Length 13minutes
Directed by Laurence Trimble
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating51%
A Cure for Pokeritis is a 1912 short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. After Bunny's death, a re-release was announced with the alternative title A Sure Cure for Pokeritis. This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game. It was one of many similar shorts produced by Vitagraph Studios, whose popularity made Bunny and Finch early film stars. Although its style of humor is dated, it has been recognized as a historically important representative of its period and genre.
Synopsis
Upon returning home from an evening spent losing at poker, George Brown swears off gambling forever. However, his friend Bigelow convinces him to secretly continue attending the weekly poker game and to tell his wife Mary that he has been admitted to the Sons of the Morning, a fraternal lodge, to explain his absences. When George talks in his sleep, she becomes suspicious and has her cousin Freddie Dewdrop follow him, allowing her to learn the truth. Together with the wives of the other poker players, she enacts a plan to end the gambling. Freddie and the members of his Bible study group dress up as police officers and raid the game. The gamblers' wives then arrive, and the police leave the men to be scolded, purportedly in place of being arrested. As the film ends, the Browns reconcile.Actors
John Bunny
(Mr. Sharpe)
Flora Finch
(Mrs. Sharpe)
Leah Baird
(another friend's wife)
Charles Eldridge
(Bunny's friend Bigelow)
Arthur Rosson
(the costumer)
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