Putting One Over (1919)

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Synopsis by Janiss Garza

Athletic actor George Walsh) has two roles and not enough stunts in this picture: He is Horace Barney, an incompetent who is on his way to a sanitarium, and Jack Trevor, who happens to be on the same train as Horace. Barney is accompanied by a group of schemers who want to get their hands on his fortune instead of his rightful heir, cousin, Helen Townsend (Edith Stockton). There is a train wreck, and Barney dies, but the plotters run across Jack, unconscious. Since he looks almost exactly like Horace, they die his hair and take him to the Barney home. It becomes obvious to Jack that there is something going on and he sticks around to find out what it is -- and to get to know Helen better. And while Jack gets involved in a few good fights, it is Helen who saves him from being committed to an asylum. Then Jack is able to expose the schemers for the villains they are.