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The Gusher (1913)

The Gusher (1913)

Comedy
Release Date: 1913, December 14
Directors: Mack Sennett
Countries: United States of America
Production: Keystone Film Company
Cast: Hank Mann, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand, Edgar Kennedy, Harry Russell, Ford Sterling, Mai Wells, Dot Farley, William Hauber, Charles Avery, Rube Miller, Charles Inslee

Overview:

Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.