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The Husband’s Experiment
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Charles Perley [the husband], Robert Drouet [the husband’s friend]

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 24 January 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Six months after the honeymoon the husband imagined his wife indifferent. Professor Von Tetter’s statement that untried virtue is valueless, was the last straw to this incensed man. So to test the professor’s theory, he left his wife in charge of a friend. Fiction and truth ran parallel. Reading “Don Quixote” on the way, made him decide. Well, he put an end to the test.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 January 2025.

References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.