A Mail Order Hypnotist is a 1912 American silent film drama produced by Chauncey D. Herbert. The film stars Adrienne Kroell and Thmas Flynn. The film was released together with The Los Angeles Police Department or The LAPD. The film status is uncertain but a release flier survives which is now at the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Synopsis
May Johnson is the center of attraction for Rubeville farmer's sons and is especially sought after by Jim Hudson and Lucius Milker. Lucius has a bit the best of it in May's affections and Jim casts about for something to make his stock stronger. He reads, in one of the weekly papers, the ad of a correspondence school which guarantees to teach the wonderful art of hypnotism in thirty lessons. Jims pictures to himself the added advantage he would possess over his rival by the knowledge of this power, and starts of save up his money for the course. Meanwhile he is steadily losing ground with May while Lucius gains.
J. Warren Kerrigan y joue un homme fatigué par l'amour excessif que lui porte sa femme (Adrienne Kroell) qui ne le laisse jamais en paix et ne cesse de l'embrasser à tout propos. Avec l'aide d'un docteur (Dot Farley), il fait croire à sa femme qu'il a besoin de repos complet et s'installe dans un appartement séparé. La nuit, il s'échappe et part s'amuser avec le docteur et ses amis, tandis que sa femme croit qu'il dort... jusqu'à ce que la femme du docteur découvre la supercherie et couvre le mari de ridicule.