110-year-old con men vs. small-town suckers — silent cinema's original hustle.
"Sure-thing" Steve and his pals searched the map for prospective country towns in which they could bunco the inhabitants. They decided the town of Simpville would fall for a fake auction sale.
Direction
George Ade adapts his own satirical fable with brisk staging.
Production
Authentic 1915 location shooting captures small-town America.
Director
George Ade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
George Ade was a wildly popular humorist who coined 'dating' as romantic slang — this film adapts his own syndicated newspaper fable.
The 'city slicker vs. country rube' trope dominated early American cinema, reflecting urbanization anxieties and mass migration to cities.
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