A Clever Dummy


A Clever Dummy is a 1917 American short comedy film directed by Ferris Hartman, Robert P. Kerr, Herman C. Raymaker, and Mack Sennett.

Plot

Ben Turpin is a janitor who is in love with an inventor's daughter, and is used as a model for the inventor's new mechanical dummy. To be near to her, he hides inside the dummy's case and is shipped off to a vaudeville company. He has to stay in character as the dummy, which he succeeds at. The property master stores him in Juanita Hansen's dressing room, where he steals a wad of bills, and a chase ensues.

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