Pins Are Lucky

Pins Are Lucky was written by Epes W. Sargent and produced in Jacksonville, Florida, at the Jacksonville unit of the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, under the general supervision of Arthur Hotaling.^[2] It was a short split-reel comedy, lasting approximately 5–6 minutes, and sharing a single reel of film with a second, unrelated comedy, The German Band, written by Romaine Fielding and starring Fielding, Edward and Eileen Sedgwick, and Robin Williamson.^[1] Both films were released by the General Film Company on September 19, 1914.^[1] Pins Are Lucky was one of a group of short comedies made by the Lubin company in 1914 and early 1915 that include the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy.^[2]

The film received generally favorable reviews in the trade papers. The critic for Moving Picture World wrote, "It is an old saw, 'Find a pin and pick it up and all the day you'll have good luck.' E. W. Sargent has used this theme for a comedy. This superstition is probably more prevalent amongst all classes of people than any other existing. It is seldom that any one passes a pin that catches his eye, or hers, as the case might be, who does not stoop and pick it up. The incidents that the author has worked out of this are interesting and amusing. Pins are lucky for the lovers but not for dad and the rival."^[3] Motion Picture News praised the actors: "A crank on the luck of finding pins loves the daughter of another crank on the same subject. But the daughter loves another, and in spite of the schemes of the pin cranks, they cannot pin her down to their will. The characters are in the hands of real comedians : Bill Bowers as the crank father, O. N. Hardy as the crank lover, and Raymond McKee as the lover that is loved."^[4] The Bioscope singled out Hardy in particular, calling the film "an amusing little comic, in which the Lubin 'light-weight' [a reference to Hardy] has a congenial part. His devotion to a pet superstition involves him in some strange episodes, and finally loses him a wife."^[5]

• List of American films of 1914
• Oliver Hardy filmography

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