Haunted (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy

Haunted (1916)

Short | Short, Comedy

The Newlyweds are given the use of a friend's bungalow for their honeymoon. With suitcases bearing the inevitable "Just Married" labels, they arrive at their destination and begin on a period that bids fair to be full of bliss. But Fate ...See moreThe Newlyweds are given the use of a friend's bungalow for their honeymoon. With suitcases bearing the inevitable "Just Married" labels, they arrive at their destination and begin on a period that bids fair to be full of bliss. But Fate sends Montmorency, a stranded actor, striding down the railroad tracks with his partners, Nap and Sallie, the chimps, and he and the Newlyweds are drawn together by a queer coincidence. Montmorency is seen by a circus man who covets the chimps, and the actor is forced to sell his partners. The circus man sends the chimps in an express wagon to the station to be shipped away but the express man is more interested in his book "Pity the Laboring Man" than in his charges, and the box with the monkeys in falls to the pavement before the house which shelters the Newlyweds. Nap and Sallie emerge from the broken box and take refuge in the nearest haven they find, which chances to be the attic of the Newlyweds' bungalow. Then commences a reign of terror. Mrs. Newlywed thinks that her husband is perfect except for his smoking, and he thinks that she is perfect except for her excessive eating so that when his cigar and her lunch vanish, each blames the other and a quarrel is the result. As a matter of fact, the chimps have made a raid from the attic and even at the time of the quarrel, Nap is smoking peacefully behind the hall rack and Sallie is enjoying a lunch in the attic. Finally mysteriously opened doors, laundry baskets that sway to and fro, a syphon that sprays them in the face as they open the kitchen door and the noise of soft footfalls where no persons are, lead the couple to the conviction that the house is haunted. They decide to leave, only to find that the house has been mysteriously fired by the stolen cigar which Nap has left on Mrs. Newlywed's best hat on the rack in the hall. The two rush to pack their suitcases. But Mr. Newlywed's umbrella persists in dancing about the room, carried by some unseen thing, and they flee into Mrs. Newlywed's room to find her nightgown waving aloft upon the arms of what is apparently an apparition with its head hidden in the white folds. Mrs. Newlywed faints at the continued horrors, and Mr. Newlywed is at his wit's end. But help comes in the shape of the circus man and the careless delivery man. The circus man has waited in vain for the chimps at the station and has found the driver, compelling him to drive him back over the road he has just traveled in order to try and find some clue to the missing animals. They ring at the Newlyweds' bungalow and Mr. Newlywed, in fright, drops his wife on the floor and she revives. They both rush to the door and upon hearing of the loss of the chimps, see an explanation of the uncanny happenings of the past several hours. The chimps are located in the attic and everybody is happy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Ralph McComas The Husband The Husband See fewer	Flat Harmony (1917)
Lillian Leighton The Wife The Wife See fewer	Parisian Love (1925)
Napoleon Napoleon the Chimpanzee Napoleon the Chimpanzee See fewer	The Jungle Cure (1916)
Sally Sally the Chimpanzee Sally the Chimpanzee See fewer	Napoleon and Sally (1916)
Charles Carter Circus Manager Circus Manager See fewer	The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914)
Louis Chaudet The Rube The Rube See fewer	KingFisher's Roost (1921)

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