Pretzel's Baby - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Pretzel is badly henpecked; his wife won't even let him hold their baby. Pretzel accidentally finds a counterfeiting plant and a bunch of counterfeit money and confiscates them. Pretzel's maid Molly's suitor Hans is a cop. When Molly is ...See morePretzel is badly henpecked; his wife won't even let him hold their baby. Pretzel accidentally finds a counterfeiting plant and a bunch of counterfeit money and confiscates them. Pretzel's maid Molly's suitor Hans is a cop. When Molly is discharged for breaking dishes. Hans swears revenge. Pretzel, who is chief of police, pays off his force with the counterfeit money. The counterfeiters, searching for their stolen plant, run onto the cops, capture them, tie them up and force them to tell where they got their counterfeit bills. Learning that Pretzel is their man, the counterfeiters resolve to teach him a lesson. They go to his house, find everybody away except the baby, which they put in the oven. Pretzel returns, finds his wife out, and starts to cook some grub. Hans arrives just in time to prevent him from lighting the stove. The two men have a rough-and-tumble fight. Mrs. Pretzel hears the police's cries for help, frees them and all hasten to the Pretzel home. The counterfeiters are captured. Pretzel and Hans disentangled, and the baby peacefully sleeps--in the oven. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less