Dobs at the Shore

Dobs at the Shore is a 1914 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.^[1] It was on a split reel with He Made His Mark.^[2]

This plot summary was published in The Moving Picture World for November 14, 1914:^[3]

Jemula Heckla and his wife are spending the day at the shore when Helen Martin, a young and beautiful heiress, escorted by Count Casco, are preparing for a dip in the ocean. While the Count has gone to get Helen an ice-cream cone, Mrs. Heckla falls asleep and Jemula starts to flirt with Helen. Afraid that his wife will wake up, Jem makes a dummy out of the sand, drapes his coat and hat around it, puts it at his wife's side and sneaks off. Sneaking over to Helen's side Jem attempts to kiss her, when the Count returns and smashes the ice-cream cone in Jem's face. Jem kicks the Count in the chest, and he falls over Jem's sleeping wife. She jumps up, thinks the Count has smashed her husband and starts to beat him up. Hearing a yell Mrs. Heckla turns and sees her husband trying to kiss Helen. Snatching a revolver that is in the old carpet bag, Mrs. Heckla starts chasing her husband, Helen and the Count. She chases her husband and the Count into the ocean where they almost drown. Helen runs off for the police and the life guards. The Count climbs up a rope to the top of a pier. Jem climbs the other side, while his wife is running along the beach looking for him. The life guards are diving for Jem and the Count. On ihe top of the pier Jem sneaks up on the Count and knocks him off the pier. Jem is about to start for the shore when he sees the police force headed by Helen dashing along the pier. In his excitement he falls off. The cops dash out on the end of the pier, grab a rope and throw it to the struggling men in the water. Jem, the Count and two of the life guards grab the rope and yell for the cop^ to pull them in. The cops on the pier are pulling on the rope. Mrs. Heckla sees them from the other end of the pier and she starts to shoot. The cops drop the rope and dive off the pier among the struggling crowd in the water. Mrs. Heckla runs to the end of the pier and starts shooting at the men in the water. Helen, who has been hiding behind a post, jumps and runs for the bath house. Mrs. Heckla catches Jem just as he is sneaking out of the water ; she grabs him and drags him off. The cops take charge of the Count, who is arrested for attempted suicide.

• Frank Griffin as Jemula Heckla (as Frank C. Griffin)
• Oliver Hardy as Meggie Heckla (as Babe Hardy)
• Frances Ne Moyer as Helen Martin
• Raymond McKee as Count Casco
• Don Ferrando as Bob Fisher

• List of American films of 1914
• Oliver Hardy filmography

• Dobs at the Shore at IMDb