Movie Details
Theatrical Release:November 16th, 1912
Original Language:English
Production Companies:The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Alkali Ikes Close Shave (1912)
Alkali Ike with a luxuriant growth of beard that he has carefully fostered determines to see the city for the first time He arrives and not being a good dodger is knocked insensible by the first automobile he encounters His disfigured face is shaven by a doctor who adorns it with several large strips of plaster gives him some new clothes and turns him loose Arriving back in his home town he meets his wifes sister attempts to embrace her and she not recognizing his shaven face summons the aid of a group of punchers who immediately put Alkali through a course of rough treatment including a ducking in the watering trough and finally land him in the town jail