Jim Jarvis and Chas. Ives, two very much married men, while playing cards at the club, very much over-stayed their time, and when Jarvis called Ives' attention to the fact, it was two a.m. ... See full summary
The Bad Man from the East (1914) Online
Jim Jarvis and Chas. Ives, two very much married men, while playing cards at the club, very much over-stayed their time, and when Jarvis called Ives' attention to the fact, it was two a.m. Hurrying home, Jarvis was met by his wife as soon as he climbed in the window. She laid the law down to him and dragged him to the attic and made him sleep there as punishment. Ives, upon arriving home, started to bully things, and his young wife would have let him get away with it, but her mother interfered, and as a consequence, Ives was ordered from the house. Broke from the poker game, and angry, he wandered the streets for a while, and at last becoming sleepy, he climbed into an open freight car. An engine was coupled on the car and six days later, tired and hungry, Ives finds himself in Goldbrick, Ariz. He climbs out of the car, and is wandering up the track, when he espies a box, which has fallen from an express car. Opening it he sees it contains a full western outfit. This he proceeds to ...
Released as a split reel along with the comedy Levi's Luck (1914).