The Villain Foiled

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Directed by	Henry Lehrman, Mack Sennett
Starring	Edward Dillon; Blanche Sweet; Joseph Graybill; Kate Bruce
Production; company	Biograph Company
Release date	August 31, 1911;
Running time	5 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Villain Foiled is a 1911 American silent comedy short film directed by Henry Lehrman and Mack Sennett and starring Edward Dillon and Blanche Sweet.^[1] The film was a split reel along with the film The Baron. A print of The Villain Foiled exists.^[2]

Plot

According to a film magazine,^[3] "An unsuccessful suitor gets his rival drunk so as to win the girl away from him. The intended victim's friends, however, thwart the villain's plans by making it appear that the girl's sweetheart had attempted suicide because of her coldness. This so impresses the girl that she consents to an immediate marriage to the young man by the minister they have called in."

Cast

Edward Dillon as Harry, the fiancé
Blanche Sweet as Miss Page
Joseph Graybill as Hector Durant, the villain
Kate Bruce as Miss Page's mother
William J. Butler as club valet
Dell Henderson as Harry's 2nd friend
Eddie Lyons as club member
Fred Mace as Harry's 1st friend
Vivian Prescott

References

↑ Lehrman, Henry; Sennett, Mack (August 31, 1911), The Villain Foiled (Short, Comedy), Edward Dillon, Blanche Sweet, Joseph Graybill, Biograph Company, retrieved May 24, 2024
↑ The Villain Foiled at silentera.com
↑ "The Villain Foiled". Moving Picture World. 9 (8): 647. September 2, 1911 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

The Villain Foiled at IMDb

[1] Lehrman, Henry; Sennett, Mack (August 31, 1911), The Villain Foiled (Short, Comedy), Edward Dillon, Blanche Sweet, Joseph Graybill, Biograph Company, retrieved May 24, 2024

[2] The Villain Foiled at silentera.com

[3] "The Villain Foiled". Moving Picture World. 9 (8): 647. September 2, 1911 – via Internet Archive. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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