''The Chicken in the Case'' is a 1921 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

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, Vivia Ogden and Teddy Sampson.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Steve Perkins decides to borrow Winnie, the newly acquired wife of his room mate Fercival, in order to meet his Aunt Sarah's wishes and get his inheritance sooner. The aunt is so impressed with Winifred that she leaves the money in the name of the framed-up wife. Aunty, however, runs into Winifred and her real husband Percy together and it looks suspicious to her. Of course, after that she stumbles across all kinds of suspicious circumstantial evidence and, after many kinds of humorous complications during which Steve really gets married to someone else, the whole plot is unraveled, Steve confesses to the hoax, and it all comes out right.

Cast

as Steve Perkins * Vivia Ogden as Aunt Sarah * Teddy Sampson as Winnie Jones *

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as Percival Jones *

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as Ruth Whitman * Linus Aaberg as Maj. Whitman

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1921 films 1921 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Victor Heerman Selznick Pictures films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub