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If you were a thrifty housewife and every morning found your morning's milk gone from your doorstep, no doubt you would have created as much commotion as the housewives of this film. They ... See full summary
If you were a thrifty housewife and every morning found your morning's milk gone from your doorstep, no doubt you would have created as much commotion as the housewives of this film. They raked in the cop on the beat, who solved the mystery, which, like most mysteries, was no mystery at all when it was solved. Anyway, wrathful parents smiled at themselves.

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    • Author: Leniga
    A boy directs his younger sister to steal the milk left on porches, and bring the filled bottles to him, whereupon he pours the milk into a funnel connected to a long tube. Housewives find their milk missing and demand that cop-on-the-beat Eddie Dillon arrest the thief in this Biograph split-reel.

    It's a gentle little comedy without any real substance, except to wonder what the kids are doing. At four minutes it doesn't have time to pall, even though it never really does much of anything at all.

    The copy I saw this evening at the Museum of Modern Art had a synopsis that claimed William Wing not only wrote this, he directed it. If so, it would be his only directorial credit and I have my doubts.
  • Credited cast:
    Edward Dillon Edward Dillon - Policeman
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Charles Avery Charles Avery - Extra
    Clara T. Bracy Clara T. Bracy - Extra
    Kate Bruce Kate Bruce - Extra
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