The Customary Two Weeks


1917

Film Details

Release Date
Aug 18, 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Thomas A Edison, Inc.; A Conquest Picture
Distribution Company
K-E-S-E Service
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Customary Two Weeks" by Freeman Tilden in The Saturday Evening Post (3 Mar 1917).

Synopsis

Harry Burnhart, who has inherited the Eclipse Tool Company, leaves the running of the company to efficiency expert Carl Vibert. When Vibert gives Pop Grinell, the company's oldest employee, two weeks' notice because he is slowing down on the job, the firm's advertising manager, George Extell, appeals to Burnhart to reinstate Pop. For his efforts, George himself is dismissed. Bidding farewell to his sweetheart Muriel Clemm, George heads West where he secures a job in a competitor's tool company, soon becoming the star salesman. His success leads Burnhart to offer him complete charge of the Eclipse Tool Company, and the salesman returns triumphantly to exact revenge on Vibert by giving him "the customary two weeks." However, his conscience gets the better of him and George relents, rehires Vibert and marries Muriel.

Film Details

Release Date
Aug 18, 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Thomas A Edison, Inc.; A Conquest Picture
Distribution Company
K-E-S-E Service
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Customary Two Weeks" by Freeman Tilden in The Saturday Evening Post (3 Mar 1917).

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According to some sources, this film was distributed by Forum Films, which was organized to release Edison Conquest Pictures.