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The Rural Third Degree

The Rural Third Degree

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 6, 1913

Runtime

0h 14m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

The Rural Third Degree

Production Companies

Keystone Film Company

Director

Mack Sennett

Description

Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being unaccustomed to drink, is overcome and falls on the table in a stupor. Si discovers her just as a party of neighbors are coming to congratulate the young couple and hides her in the yard, laying her on a bench. An inquisitive visitor finds her and reports to the constables that Si has killed his wife, and he is apprehended.