This film has some historical significance because it features the screen debuts of Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
The plot has the sisters being held at gunpoint while their soused maid and a thief (Harry Carey) try to blow the safe containing the girls' inheritance. Elmer Booth, as the older brother, and Robert Harron, as the boyfriend of Dorothy Gish, come to the rescue.
The silliness comes from the maid pointing a gun through a hole in the wall, which scares the crap out of the girls. There is no way the maid can aim at them, since she can't see them. But that's silent film melodrama.
The Gish sisters are charming, as is Harron as the smitten young lad. Booth overacts terribly in one big scene, where he is on the phone with Dorothy Gish and hears a gunshot. Judging by his expression, you would think he was having a prostate exam. Unfortunately, he was killed in an accident three years after making this film. Carey, as the thief, is menacing and has a charcoal beard. Future star Antonio Moreno can be glimpsed in a scene where Booth and some rescuers are trying to make it over a floating bridge.
The plot has the sisters being held at gunpoint while their soused maid and a thief (Harry Carey) try to blow the safe containing the girls' inheritance. Elmer Booth, as the older brother, and Robert Harron, as the boyfriend of Dorothy Gish, come to the rescue.
The silliness comes from the maid pointing a gun through a hole in the wall, which scares the crap out of the girls. There is no way the maid can aim at them, since she can't see them. But that's silent film melodrama.
The Gish sisters are charming, as is Harron as the smitten young lad. Booth overacts terribly in one big scene, where he is on the phone with Dorothy Gish and hears a gunshot. Judging by his expression, you would think he was having a prostate exam. Unfortunately, he was killed in an accident three years after making this film. Carey, as the thief, is menacing and has a charcoal beard. Future star Antonio Moreno can be glimpsed in a scene where Booth and some rescuers are trying to make it over a floating bridge.