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Cured (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short

Cured (1916)

Short | Comedy, Short

Curtiss is a physician with the usual cranky patients. Wilkens, a young lawyer, calls on him to bring money he has collected for him (most of which he retains as his fee). Wilkens sees a photograph in Curtiss' office of a girl and falls in...See moreCurtiss is a physician with the usual cranky patients. Wilkens, a young lawyer, calls on him to bring money he has collected for him (most of which he retains as his fee). Wilkens sees a photograph in Curtiss' office of a girl and falls in love with it, but Curtiss laughs at him and won't tell who the girl is. Wilkens then sees Curtiss cure a hypochondriac who imagines he is ill by giving him a powder of powdered sugar and a glass of water. He says it is a cinch to be a doctor. Curtiss, being at this moment called out, tells Wilkens if it is such a cinch, to stay and run his office while he is out. Wilkens laughingly accepts and puts in his time making love to the photograph of Madge. Madge has a pain in her ankle and passing Curtiss' office decides to stop in. When Wilkens sees her he is delighted to discover the original of the photograph. When Madge learns Curtiss is not in she is about to leave, but in order to detain her, Wilkens tells her he is in charge of the office and lies and says he is a doctor. His bluff at being a doctor is amusing, but when he prescribes absent treatment she leaves in a huff. Outside she meets Curtiss and her brother and learns Wilkens is a pretender. She is angry and plans a practical joke in revenge with her brother Bob. The latter goes in and sees Wilkens who gives him several powders of the sugar. Bob, thereupon, pretends to die. Curtiss enters and changes the sugar powders to a box marked poison and convinces Wilkens that he has killed Bob. Then Madge enters pretending illness and as Wilkens gave her a powder for her ankle, he thinks that he has also killed her. Presently Madge discovers her "dead" brother and reproaches Wilkens bitterly. Wilkens is heartbroken and picks up a bottle marked poison and drinks it. Curtiss, Madge and Bob are now horrified as it seems their "joke" will cause Wilkens' death. It is discovered, however, that the bottle contained only distilled water and the picture ends with Wilkens being introduced to Madge, who is having her ankle bandaged, and the audience knows that some day, oh well, why mention it. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Arthur Matthews Dr. Curtiss Dr. Curtiss See fewer	Ignorance (1916)
Billie Reeves Wilkens Wilkens See fewer	The Substitute (1915)
Carrie Reynolds Madge Carleton Madge Carleton See fewer	A Mother's Confession (1915)
Jack Delson Bob Carleton Bob Carleton See fewer	A Woman Went Forth (1915)