Victoria Forde, Eddie Lyons, and Lee Moran in A Coat's a Coat (1915)

It happens that Eddie and Mr. Bates, with offices in the same building, have delivered to them upon the same day overcoats exactly alike in every respect. Eddie becomes engaged to his sweetheart, Victoria, and buys a ring to give ...

A Coat&apos;s a Coat

Not much novelty

Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran appear as an engaged man and a married man respectively. They get their overcoats mixed up and the sweetheart and wife become greatly agitated over the error. The action is good and the cast pleasing, but the plot has not much novelty, as the overcoat exchange has been used frequently. - The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915

It happens that Eddie and Mr. Bates, with offices in the same building, have delivered to them upon the same day overcoats exactly alike in every respect. Eddie becomes engaged to his sweetheart, Victoria, and buys a ring to give her. In his hurry to keep an appointment with her, Eddie forgets and leaves the ring in his office. He meets his sweetheart and tells her that he has a surprise for her, asking her to close her eyes and hold out her hand. He then finds that he hasn't the ring and is forced to confess its absence to his sweetheart. She promises to wait for him until he goes to his office and gets it. Mr. Bates has some papers which he desires Eddie to witness. When Eddie arrives at his office he places the ring in the same pocket with Victoria's gloves, which she has given him. He then goes into Mr. Bates' office. When Eddie leaves he picks up Mr. Bates' overcoat, believing it to be his own. He meets his sweetheart again, but to his consternation finds that the ring is missing. Angered by her second disappointment, Eddie's sweetheart demands her gloves, intending to leave him. She is much incensed when Eddie is unable to produce them. She leaves and goes home. Mr. Bates meanwhile has returned home to his wife. She again admires the coat which she has seen once before. She runs her hands into its deep pockets and finds the ring and gloves. Mr. Bates is at a loss to explain their presence in his pocket and his wife, believing he has been out with another woman, becomes very angry and decides to leave him. Bates goes back to his office. Eddie, Meanwhile, has telephoned the police concerning the loss of the ring, gloves and coat. They put plain-clothesmen upon the case. Mrs. Bates sends a letter inviting Victoria, who is her friend, telling her that as she is about to leave her husband, she desires her to call for a farewell visit. Plain-clothesmen pick up Mr. Bates and follow him home. Victoria is there and recognizes her gloves. Mrs. Bates at once surmises that her husband has been out with Victoria. The plain-clothesmen telephone headquarters that their man is safe in the house. When Eddie calls upon them later for information they tell him that the man who has the coat is in the house at No. 200 Hollywood Drive and ask him to go there at once to claim the property. Eddie goes to the number indicated and recognizes it as the home of his friend. The plainclothesmen assure him that the thief is within and escort him into the house. Bates and Eddie come face to face. Eddie recognizes his ring which further complicates matters. Later he and Bates discover that they have coats identical in appearance. Explanations follow, bring the matter finally to a friendly settlement. Eddie wins back his sweetheart and Mr. and Mrs. Bates are reconciled.

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