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The Talker
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Frances Cummings [Sarah Tripamer, the talker], Romaine Fielding [the cringer]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 24 July 1912; in a split-reel with A Visit to Lively Town (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Sarah Tripamor is a rentable talking machine; every day she murders people by talking them to death. Ambulances are continually being called to take charge of collapsed victims. She stops the mail man and talks until he drops. A blind man throws up his hands and regrets that he is not also deaf. Determining to get in her diabolical work, she tackles a German band until they drive her away with their horns. Next she meets a policeman who has a thief in charge; the poor cop swoons and the thief escapes. Visiting a picture show she makes her way behind the screen and talks to the shadowgraphs. Another policeman is attacked and Sarah talks the button off his uniform. Finally her jaw gets dislocated, she is taken to a hospital where one of the surgeons gives the jaw a punch and replaces it. Her husband punches it out again and she is rendered permanently dumb. Sarah is not easy to beat. Finding that she cannot talk any more, she goes to a deaf and dumb asylum and learns the sign language. Now she keeps up her incessant clatter with her fingers.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 May 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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