COMEDY. A parody of the racing drama 'The Whip'.



Lord Elpus (Pimple) is penniless and puts all of his money on The Whip, a race
horse. The villain follows him to a secret trial of The Whip (a pantomime
horse). Later the villain goes to The Whip's stable and tries to poison him by
sawing his leg off, and then his tail, but Elpus intervenes. At Madame
Tussaud's Lord Elpus and the heroine see wax figures of Von Tirpitz, the
Kaiser (a pig), Von O'Clock and Charles Peace. The villain locks Elpus inside,
but he escapes with the help of a genie from Aladdin's lamp. Elpus cycles
after a train containing The Whip. As he is releasing the horse the train
behind crashes into the carriage too soon, and the scene has to be repeated
twice before Elpus rescues The Whip, only for the train to crash into them
both. At Newmarket Lord Elpus himself rides The Whip in the race (the other
competitors also being pantomime horses) and seems certain of victory when The
Whip throws him just before the winning post and refuses to move any further.
In close-up, Pimple bows to the audience.



Note: "The Whip" was a famous Drury Lane production, written by Cecil Raleigh
and Henry Hamilton, which featured at its climax an actual on-stage horse
race, as well as the earlier rail crash. It was filmed by Maurice Tourneur in
the USA in 1917.