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Heart Trouble
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Alan Hale [the young novelist], Vola Smith (Vola Vale) [the heart specialist’s daughter], Charles Bennett [the heart specialist]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 18 September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The young novelist sees a beautiful girl, and badly smitten, follows her home, where, from the name plate on the door, he learns that she is the daughter of a famous specialist on heart diseases. Eager to meet the girl on any pretext, he plans to become a patient of the doctor, and to that end deluges his system with strong coffee, to produce symptoms described in a book on affections of the heart. The scheme succeeds, and the love affair develops rapidly. But the doctor withholds consent to the marriage on the ground that the young man’s heart is badly affected. The lovers run off and get married. Months later the doctor makes a discovery which sends him post-haste to the novelist’s rooms with a pistol in his hand. A minister is summoned, but he laughs and says, “I married them months ago.” Whereupon father capitulates and acknowledges that, though a specialist, he doesn’t know everything about the heart.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 January 2025.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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