Overview
Annice Paisch and her friend, Edna Lawson, almost despair of finding husbands in their dull hometown until Annice is struck with the idea of strewing tacks over the heavily traveled road that passes her house. New Yorker Vance Duncan promptly has an accident and is forced to recuperate in the home of Annice's father, the local doctor. Vance sends Annice to the telegraph station to wire his uncle, Mike Darcy, and there she meets detective Robert Cord, who informs her that Vance is a hopeless alcoholic. Uncle Mike arrives and Annice immediately falls in love with him, while Edna longs for Vance. Cord has Vance imprisoned in Dr. Dumbbell's Sanitarium for Drunkards, but Annice, masquerading as a patient, smuggles him out. They arrive home to find someone else's "Uncle Mike" chastising the detective for tracking down the wrong man, and the four young lovers finally are left in peace.
Director and cast
- Viola Dana as Annice Paisch
- Elsie MacLeod as Edna Lawson
- Howard Hall as Dr. Rodney Paisch
- William B. Davidson as Michael Darcy
- Franklyn Hanna as Michael Connors
- Julia Hurley as Gardener's Wife
- John McGowan as Vance Duncan
- Fred C. Jones as Robert Cord
- Edward Mack as The Gardener
- George Dowling as Dr. Dumbbell
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