A Cure for Pokeritis

A Cure for Pokeritis
A black-and-white film still of an overweight man, hands on hips, staring at a woman to the right.
John Bunny and Flora Finch as George and Mary Brown
Directed byLaurence Trimble
Starring
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Company[1]
Release date
  • February 23, 1912 (1912-02-23)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

A Cure for Pokeritis is a 1912 short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. After Bunny's death in 1915, a re-release was announced with the alternative title A Sure Cure for Pokeritis. The film, a domestic comedy, depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on his weekly poker game. It was one of many similar shorts produced by Vitagraph Studios—one-reel comedies starring Bunny and Finch in a domestic setting, known popularly as "Bunnygraphs" or "Bunnyfinches"—whose popularity made Bunny and Finch early film stars. The film has been recognized as an historically important representative of its period and genre.

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