A Cure for Pokeritis is a 1912 short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. It depicts a woman who stops her husband’s gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on his weekly poker game. After Bunny’s death in 1915, a re-release was announced with the alternative title A Sure Cure for pokeritis.
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A Cure for Pokeritis is a 1912 short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. It depicts a woman who stops her husband’s gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on his weekly poker game. The film has been recognized as an historically important representative of its period and genre. It was one of many one-reel comedies starring Bunny and Finch in a domestic setting, known popularly as ‘Bunnygraphs’ or ‘B Bunnyfinches’ The film was an early example of efforts to move beyond theater blocking conventions. The number of these shorts that were originally produced is unknown because Vitagraph’s films were generally not archived. After Bunny’s death in 1915, a re-release was announced with the alternative title A Sure Cure for pokeritis.
After his death in 1917, Vitagraph announced the re-released of this film along with many of his other works, along with other works of comedians such as Charlie Sennett and Charlie Chaplin. It has not aged well, especially in contrast to the slapstick films of later comedians, such as Chaplin’s and Charlie Mackstick’s films. It is not entirely clear what the names of the characters played by Bunny or Finch were intended to be. In the film, the letter written to gather the wives together identifies the two main characters as Mary and George Brown. However, a cast list in Vitographers’ in-house publication refers to the main character as Mr. and Mrs. Bunny Sharpe, while ‘Mr. Brown’ is given as the name of a minor character.
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