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A Dark Suspicion (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short

A Dark Suspicion (1916)

Short | Comedy, Short

Bill Binks is a married man, and a very much "henpecked" one at that. As Bill is preparing the noonday meal he enters his wife's room and finds her primping to go out. He upbraids her for making him do all the menial work. He lays down the...See moreBill Binks is a married man, and a very much "henpecked" one at that. As Bill is preparing the noonday meal he enters his wife's room and finds her primping to go out. He upbraids her for making him do all the menial work. He lays down the law to her and tells her that she will thereafter do the housework or they will move to a hotel. The wife thinks this will be a good idea and persuades Bill to accompany her to the hotel. At the hotel live Sam Green and his wife, and they are a typical couple of newlyweds. They have troubles of their own. While Sam is taking a bath the tub springs a leak and he tries to stop the flow of water with his wife's new hat. The wife is pressing his trousers and in the excitement they become severely burned. They are arguing with the hotel clerk when Bill and his wife arrive. Mrs. Green recognizes an old sweetheart in the person of Bill and there is a happy meeting between the two. Mrs. Binks and Mr. Green are very much surprised at the meeting and both become jealous of their respective mates. Green takes his wife back to their room, while Mrs. Binks orders her husband into their apartments. Green decides that a public hotel is not a place for a pretty newly-wedded woman and decides to seek out a bungalow. Mrs. Green meets Bill and tells him of looking for a place. Bill suddenly thinks of his own home and tells her that he has the very place they are looking for. He suggests that she accompany him to look it over. Mrs. Binks misses her husband and Mr. Green misses his wife at the same time and they come out of the hotel just in time to see Binks and Mrs. Green leaving in a taxicab. Both, believing their "better halves" are eloping, set out in pursuit. Binks and Mrs. Green arrive at the house, not knowing they are pursued, and Binks is showing her about the place. Green and Mrs. Binks have many mishaps, but finally arrive at the house. Mrs. Binks tells Green that she has long suspected her husband of chasing "chickens" and she is glad to find him out at last. They take refuge in the cellar while trying to catch Binks and Mrs. Green spooning. While they are thus hiding the delivery man begins to unload the ordered coal and it is all dumped in the cellar. Binks and Mrs. Green hear the scrambling downstairs and believe it is burglars. They call for the police. Poor Green and Mrs. Binks are buried under the heap of coal. Binks and Mrs. Green, unable to bear the idea of remaining in the house with burglars, jump out of the window just as the cops arrive. All are taken in charge by the cops and leave to catch the burglars. Green and Mrs. Binks finally wiggle out from under the coal and knock on the door for assistance. The cops open the door, but before Green can explain the cop bangs him on the head with his club. Mrs. Binks grabs her husband and then turns upon Mrs. Green and demands to know what she has been doing in the house with another woman's husband. Mrs. Green calmly pulls out a slip of paper and opening it displays to the astonished eyes of Mrs. Binks a receipt for six months' rent. Mrs. Binks and Mr. Green are ashamed of their unjust accusations of their respective husband and wife. In desperation Mrs. Binks tells the crowd that she was endeavoring to rent the house to Mrs. Green. Mr. Binks and Mrs. Green never found out that they had been followed by an avenging husband and a desperate wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Billy Franey Bill Binks (as William Franey) Bill Binks (as William Franey) See fewer	When Damon Fell for Pythias (1917)
Gale Henry Mrs. Binks Mrs. Binks See fewer	Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Kidnapping the King's Kids (1915)
Milburn Morante Sam Green Sam Green See fewer	Chasing Trouble (1926)
Lillian Peacock Mrs. Green Mrs. Green See fewer	Hiram's Inheritance (1915)
Heinie Conklin Policeman (as Charles Conklin) Policeman (as Charles Conklin) See fewer	Hard Boiled (1926)