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Mixed Bottles (1912)
Short | Short, Comedy

Mixed Bottles (1912)

Short | Short, Comedy

Claude Belmont, the poet, is very fond of Jessamine. Also is he very fond of liquor. So is his housemaid. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in the drawer of his desk, where, it being discovered by Bridget, she helps herself. Claude discovers a ...See moreClaude Belmont, the poet, is very fond of Jessamine. Also is he very fond of liquor. So is his housemaid. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in the drawer of his desk, where, it being discovered by Bridget, she helps herself. Claude discovers a shrinkage in his stock and decides upon a novel scheme to stop the purloining of his precious stock. He pours the whiskey into a bottle labeled "Carbolic Acid," and pours some crude oil into the whiskey bottle. He then goes out, and proposes marriage to Jessamine and is rejected. He vows that he will kill himself. Meanwhile Bridget is entertaining her friend the policeman, and goes up for some of the whiskey. She brings down two glasses full, and she and the policeman drink it. They both become very sick, the crude oil doing its work well. Claude comes home and, being absent-minded, takes a drink of what he thinks is the whiskey. He, too, is taken very sick, and Jessamine, who has followed him to the house, finds him in a lamentable condition. She determines to join him in death, and drinks from the bottle marked "Carbolic Acid," only to find that it contains whiskey. She runs out of the house and is done with Claude forever, while the three unlucky whiskey-lovers await the passing of their seemingly unending agony. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less