"The Hansom Cabman" (1924) - with film
Marceline Day
Directed by Harry Edwards
Produced by Mack Sennett Comedies
Starring Harry Langdon, Marceline Day, Andy Clyde, Charlotte Mineau, Madeline Hurlock
Cinematography Vernon Walker and Lee Davis
Distributed by Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Release date October 12, 1924
Running time 19 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent film, English intertitles
We have included this film in our program to illustrate the work and contributions of our star Marceline Day.
"The Hansom Cabman" is a nice Mack Sennett short comedy starring Harry Langdon and a charming 16 year young Marceline Day.
Harry wakes up with a bad hangover from the night before. It turns out that today he supposed to get married, but when his fiancée Marceline Day calls him on the phone, he can't pull himself together and goes back to bed. He is in for a rude awakening, however, as an unfamiliar woman shows up in his bedroom and declares that she is his wife. His butler confirms that they got married the night before.
Marceline Day has a bad feeling about the situation and she brings her mother to deal with Harry. He really can't remember anything about last night. Then he and his would-be wife have a little scuffle, she cries "wife beater" and Harry gets arrested and put in jail.
By a trick of circumstance the judge that presides on the bail hearing is Marceline Day's father. He, of course, is in no mood to release the suspect, and Harry goes back to jail. Mysteriously he is able to escape and goes undercover as a cab driver.
In the meantime the would-be wife confesses that the alleged matrimony of the night before never happened and was a scheme arranged by the butler. Marceline Day is relieved, her father makes a call to have Harry released from jail, but he is nowhere to be found.
The film enjoys a very "hansom" rating in IMDB.
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The Hansom Cabman
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Marceline Day calls her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day as the flower girls watch in excitement in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day calls her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day is excited to speak with her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day knows something is wrong after her fiance Harry Langdon hangs up on the morning of their wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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The butler Leo Sulky tells Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day that he married another woman the night before in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day brings her mother Charlotte Mineau to deal with her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day and her mother demand explanation from her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day and her mother grill her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Harry Langdon seeks help from Madeline Hurlock the would-be wife on the morning of his wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day and her mother complain to Andy Clyde her father the judge about her fiance Harry Langdon's indiscretions in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Andy Clyde, Marceline Day's father the judge, is furious about her fiance Harry Langdon's indiscretions in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day's father the judge sends her fiance Harry Langdon back to jail in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day visits her fiance Harry Langdon in jail in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day cries for their ruined wedding day in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day still loves her fiance Harry Langdon although he married another woman in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day and her parents are relieved that her fiance Harry Langdon is innocent in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day's father the judge makes a call to have her fiance Harry Langdon released from jail in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
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Marceline Day and her mother finally find her fiance Harry Langdon and tell him that he is innocent in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).
Marceline Day talks on the phone with her fiance