Poor Jake's Demise
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Poor Jake's Demise is a 1913 American silent short slapstick comedy film directed by Allen Curtis featuring Max Asher, Louise Fazenda, and Lon Chaney. The film focuses on Jake who finds his wife in a compromising position with another man and later takes his revenge with a seltzer bottle. It is one of several slapstick comedy films Chaney made for Universal at the start of his career and is also his first credited screen role.
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Poor Jake's Demise | |
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Directed by | Allen Curtis |
Starring | Max Asher Lon Chaney |
Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
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Running time | 1 reel |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
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The film is partially lost, but a fragment of the film (running almost 8 minutes) was discovered in England in May 2006 and restored by Lobster Films of Paris.[1][2]