A Clever Dummy

(1917)

23 minutes

Comedy / Silent

Directed by Ferris Hartman, Robert P. Kerr, Herman C. Raymaker and Mack Sennett

Cast:

Ben Turpin as A romantic janitor
Chester Conklin as A playful property man
Wallace Beery as A vaudeville manager
Juanita Hansen as A leading lady
Claire Anderson as An object of affection
James Donnelly as Her inventive father
James Delano as His interested partner

Ben Turpin playing a postman who everyday goes to a block of apartments to look at his love.  Soon he finds out that some mechanics a making a robot dummy that looks exactly like him.  He soon takes over and at the dummy's debut at the theatre he dresses himself and hides the dummy.