Name: Married in Haste
Released: 1919
Cast: Albert Ray, Elinor Fair, Robert Klein, Don Bailey, B. M. Turner

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Up Against It

Release Date

Apr 6, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Fox Film Corp.

Distribution Company

Fox Film Corp.; Excel Pictures

Country

United States

Synopsis

Sam Morgan, a millionaire spendthrift, marries Constance Winwood, who tries to break Sam's spending habits by convincing Downer, the trustee of Sam's inheritance, to pretend to abscond with Sam's money. During their honeymoon, Sam spends his $10.30 pocket money and then discovers that his checks bounce. Unable to pay an increasingly large taxi fare, Sam and Constance keep the cab and its sleepy driver engaged after they are thrown out of a hotel. After a friendly thief gets Sam a job in a herring refinery, Sam uses his rudimentary knowledge of Spanish to buy a shipload of herring from a South American dealer and sell it to the refinery's directors, who know no Spanish, thus making enough profit to pay his now exorbitant taxi bill. Constance confesses her scheme, and although it seems that Downer really has absconded, he finally returns. Wealthy again, Sam and Constance adorn their bedroom with taxi meters and headlights.