Are You a Mason?

Are You a Mason? (1915)

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he tries to return home, he enters the wrong house and is nearly arrested When Helen comes back he tells her that the "incident" was actually an initiation rite of the Masons, knowing that his wife has always wanted him to join the group. She excitedly tells her father about Frank's becoming a Mason, since her father is also a Mason. What neither she nor Frank know is that her father has actually been doing the same thing Frank is--pretending to be a Mason when he actually isn't. Complications ensue.

Date of release
1915-03-15
TMDB
3.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
50m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Thomas N. Heffron

Casting

Interesting facts

Are You a Mason? is a 1915 American silent comedy film produced by Adolph Zukor and Charles Frohman, and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Directed by Thomas N. Heffron, it starred John Barrymore as a young husband who pretends to join the Masons as an excuse to get out of the house. It was based on a 1901 play by Leo Ditrichstein.

Production

The film was based on a 1901 farce by Leo Ditrichstein, who in turn adapted it from a German play, Die Logenbrüder (The Freemason), by Curt Kraatz and Carl Laufs.

Are You a Mason? was Barrymore's third feature-length film as well as his third film under contract to Famous Players. Up and coming film hero Harold Lockwood had also appeared in Barrymore's earlier The Man from Mexico in 1914.

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