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The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
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Harry 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie, Noah Young, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Wally Howe, Charley Chase, William B. Davidson, Lincoln Stedman
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