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A Safe Loss (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy

A Safe Loss (1916)

Short | Short, Comedy

Arthur Tavares, a dishonest clerk, has been taking money from the firm and making false entries on the books. The boss discovers a shortage, and calls Art in to find out where it has gone. Art manages to stall him for a while. The Boss's ...See moreArthur Tavares, a dishonest clerk, has been taking money from the firm and making false entries on the books. The boss discovers a shortage, and calls Art in to find out where it has gone. Art manages to stall him for a while. The Boss's daughter comes to the office and makes her father take her to lunch. While he is away, a lady customer comes to the office. Art takes her money. Instead of putting it in the vault and entering the transaction on the books, he puts it into his pocket. The stenographer sees him. Rube, the janitor, also sees this. The stenographer demands her fifty per cent, and gets it. Art then proposes to her that they take it all and make a getaway. She is willing. They go in to trim the safe. The old office boy returns from lunch and interrupts them. They leave the money in the safe and return to the outer office. The old office boy thinks that the safe is not safe, so puts the money in the vault. Art and the stenographer, thinking the money is in the tin box, knocks the office boy on the head, put him in the vault and make a getaway with the box. A crook comes in to see what he can steal and meets the janitor. They exchange the secret signs, for they are of the same lodge. They combine to steal the safe and tie it to an umbrella which they think will ease it to the ground. It is thrown out of the window. They run downstairs, scare Art who has stopped to break open the box and he runs away. The boss returns from lunch and discovers the loss of the safe. Rube and the crook arrive at the bottom of the air shaft and look for the safe. It is not there. Instead of the safe coming down it is flying around over the house tops. They start in pursuit of it. The office boy comes to, gets out of the vault in time to see the boss disappear out of the office. He follows him. The chase leads to the bank of the lake. The safe falls into the lake. Rube and the crook save it. Art and the stenographer, Madge and her father arrive. The safe is found to be empty, the tin box discovered to be the same. The old office boy arrives with the money and tries to hand it to the boss. Rube and the crook fall over into the lake. Art is thrown over by the boss. All three sink. The boss makes the money a present to the old office boy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Harry Huckins The Boss The Boss See fewer	The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913)
Madge Kirby The Boss's Daughter The Boss's Daughter See fewer	An Absent-Minded Burglar (1912)
Arthur Tavares The Crooked Clerk The Crooked Clerk See fewer	Charing Cross Road (1936)
Rube Miller The Janitor The Janitor See fewer	Shy Thirty Cents (1916)