A Cure for Pokeritis

A Cure for Pokeritis is a 1912 short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. After Bunnys death, a rerelease was announced with the alternative title A Sure Cure for Pokeritis. This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husbands gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game. It was one of many similar shorts produced by Vitagraph Studios, whose popularity made Bunny and Finch early film stars. Although its style of humor is dated, it has been recognized as a historically important representative of its period and genre.

The intended names of the characters played by John Bunny and Flora Finch are not entirely clear. In the film itself, the letter written to gather the wives together identifies the two main characters as Mary and George Brown. However, Vitagraphs inhouse publication included cast lists for all of the studios films. There, the main characters are referred to as Mr. and Mrs. Bunny Sharpe, and Mr. Brown is given as the name of one of the minor characters.A Cure for Pokeritis was one of many Vitagraph Studios onereel or shorter comedies starring Bunny and Finch in a domestic setting, known popularly as Bunnygraphs or Bunnyfinches. The number of these shorts originally produced is unknown because Vitagraphs films were generally not archived. Estimates vary considerably totals in excess of 150, 200, or 260 have been proposed. Most are now lost. ........

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