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The Lady Police
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 22 January 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? At the recent election at Clearfield, the suffragettes made a clean sweep. The first thing the women did was to start a new police force. A number of the bravest women in the town were appointed policewomen. The new “coppers” have no trouble in arresting prisoners. In fact, it is the ambition of all the men in town to be arrested by the fair cops. The prisoners are entertained royally by the police. They do such a business that it is necessary to put a sign outside of the police station reading, “No More Prisoners, the Cells All Filled.” The married women of the town hold a meeting to protest against the police force, claiming that their husbands are in jail in place of home. They all go in a body to the police station, where a riot starts, the wives dragging their husbands away from the lady police and taking them home. The picture closes with the lady police all angry because the nice prisoners have been taken away, and the whole force have a good, long cry.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Suffragettes
Listing updated: 5 January 2025.
References: Lahue-World p. 32 : Website-IMDb.
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