A Coat Tale

1915
10m

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The wife falls in love with a coat that a peddler shows her, but her husband fumes when he hears that it is worth $100. He throws the peddler out but, stung by remorse, buys a cheap coat for... Read allThe wife falls in love with a coat that a peddler shows her, but her husband fumes when he hears that it is worth $100. He throws the peddler out but, stung by remorse, buys a cheap coat for his wife with a $100 bill tucked into a pocket.The wife falls in love with a coat that a peddler shows her, but her husband fumes when he hears that it is worth $100. He throws the peddler out but, stung by remorse, buys a cheap coat for his wife with a $100 bill tucked into a pocket.

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Eva McKenzie's debut.

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Wife: I threw it out the window.

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5/10

It Would Have Been Cheaper To Buy The Coat

When a peddler offers to sell Margie Reiger a coat for $100, husband Ben Turpin is so irate he throws the peddler and the coat out the door. Miss Reiger is inconsolable, so Ben buys her a stylish $7 coat, and tucks a $100 bill in a pocket. But it seems that every other woman has bought the coat, so Miss Reiger throws the coat out the window, and the money with it.

It's a fairly good slapstick comedy, with Ben taking a lot of falls. The observant viewer will notice that there are several Black characters, all of whom seem to be White people in blackface. Also, one of the women is a man in drag. That was pretty standard for 1915, but not so today.