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Original Title :
Oh! What a Dream
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy
Year :
1913
Type :
Movie
Rating :
6.9/10

Tightwad balks when friend wife shows him the bill for her new hat, which she calls "a dream." They quarrel; she strikes him. He returns the compliment. She finds a note from Mazie, asking ... See full summary

Oh! What a Dream (1913) Online

Tightwad balks when friend wife shows him the bill for her new hat, which she calls "a dream." They quarrel; she strikes him. He returns the compliment. She finds a note from Mazie, asking Tightwad to meet her at the cabaret the night before. Before a referee the couple tell their troubles with the idea of getting a divorce. They are told that witnesses must he had to their battles. They proceed to pummel each other before him, but he explains the witness must be an outside party. They leave the house and start things again before an old man sitting under a tree. When they call upon him to witness the fight they discover he is blind. Their efforts to gain a witness continue. Discouraged and disheartened two days later they come to the referee, hobbling on crutches and swathed in bandages. Taking a bottle labeled, "Drops of good sense," he crinkles some on a rag and patting their two heads together, lays the bandage over them. They drop off into a peaceful dream and awaken wrapped in ...

Released as a split reel along with the documentary L'amblystome (1913).


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This picture contains an original and amusing idea, which did not seem to be worked out to the best advantage. The married couple had trouble in getting a divorce because they had no witnesses to their quarrels. They go about trying to procure testimony of witnesses and some of the situations are funny, but as a whole the reel is not very successful. - The Moving Picture World, November 15, 1913