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The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand

0.0 20 mins Comedy   1914
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company  
Director(s): George Ade

Once there was an old man called Jonah Crabb, who believed in doing good. Every morning the bunco artists would watch for him on the street corners, and after they had told their hard-luck stories, he would dish out coin to them. When he arrived his office he was almost swamped with panhandlers and bums. Finally he tried his hand at fixing up a lovers' quarrel and put his foot in it. Billy Speedwell, the man in the case, got hold of the old boy and just knocked the spots off him for butting into his affairs. From that time on, Mr. Crabb changed his mind about doing good, and the next morning he cleared all the hobos out of his office. Moral: Cast your bread upon the waters and it will come back to you as sponge cake.

Casts of The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand

Thomas Commerford

as Jonah Crabb - The Good Samaritan

Harry Dunkinson

as Billy Speedwell

Royal Douglas

as George

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