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The Power of Sleep (1913)
Short | Comedy, Short

The Power of Sleep (1913)

Short | Comedy, Short

Bill is a husky, lazy lout. He sits at home all day smoking and reading, while his wife does all the work. Bill never lifts a finger to help her, and besides, he persecutes his daughter by driving her suitor from the premises. One ...See moreBill is a husky, lazy lout. He sits at home all day smoking and reading, while his wife does all the work. Bill never lifts a finger to help her, and besides, he persecutes his daughter by driving her suitor from the premises. One afternoon Bill falls asleep and dreams he is arrested on some trumped up charge. Following his arrest he is brought to trial and sentenced to thirty days at hard labor. He is shackled like a criminal and dragged off to prison with a number of other convicts whose services are offered to the public for hire by the day. His wife has sweet revenge by hiring him for thirty days. She takes him home accompanied by an armed guard, makes him saw wood, carry the coal, wait on the table and wash the dishes. Big Bill suddenly discovers that he is possessed of abnormal strength and becomes defiant and rebellious, refusing to do any more work. The attempt of his guard to compel him to work turns out rather disastrously. He snaps his shackles, smashes dishes and furniture, throws the armed guard out of the window and runs amok in the village streets like a raving maniac; tears the village bully limb from limb, and commits other depredations, and it takes the combined force of the village constables to conquer him and drag him back to prison. There he is securely locked up in a padded cell, but steel bars cannot deprive him of his liberty. He twists them apart like a gladiator and boldly walks to his freedom, only to he discovered by the hounding police, and, as a last resort, he jumps out of the third story window and lands with a thud that starts him so that he suddenly awakens to find himself at home in his chair in the kitchen. As he looks about him he sees his wife trying to lift the wash boiler off the stove and to her great amazement he rises to give her a hand and indicates his willingness to work. She is wondering yet what made the lazy lout change so suddenly. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Frank A. Lyons Lazy Bill Lazy Bill See fewer	The Money Kings (1912)
Arthur Housman The Village Constable The Village Constable See fewer	Sunrise (1927)
Alice Washburn Lazy Bill's Wife Lazy Bill's Wife See fewer	John Brown's Heir (1911)
Elsie MacLeod Lazy Bill's Daughter (as Elsie McLeod) Lazy Bill's Daughter (as Elsie McLeod) See fewer	The Hazards of Helen (1914)
Edward Boulden Lazy Bill's Daughter's Beau Lazy Bill's Daughter's Beau See fewer	Mary Stuart (1913)
Robert Milasch The Bully (as Robert Milash) The Bully (as Robert Milash) See fewer	Captain Blood (1924)
Edward O'Connor The Guard The Guard See fewer	The Gilded Kidd (1914)
Percy Plunkett The Judge The Judge See fewer	The Power of Sleep (1913)