Up in Alf's Place (1919)

Charlie Murray owns a delicatessen shop. In the same building is Jim Finlayson's beauty parlor, in connection with which he also runs a gymnasium for the ladies. Harriet Hammond is his athletic instructor. Kalla Pasha, secretly leader of a Bolsheviki group, has his room near the gym. All the men have fallen for the fair charms of Harriet and are in love with her and extremely jealous of each other. Seizing an opportunity when business is slack, the men get together for a little friendly card game. Murray has devised a great little scheme to win. but unfortunately it is not exactly on the level. However, it works, and Charles is just reaping his ill got ten gains when the place is raided. All the men are hustled by the cops into a patrol wagon and lodged in jail on a charge of gambling. As if to prove there is absolutely no justice in the world, the Irish judge lets Murray go. because they both are from the same county in the Emerald Isle. That arouses the Bolshevistic tendencies in Kalla Pasha. Using his inhuman strength, he breaks down the jail and releases the other in mates. Then brandishing a bomb he goes on a rampage of destruction. Murray hides in a closet from his friend, Finlayson, who is also on the war path vowing vengeance. Kalla falls in with Harriet and becomes calmer under her influence, finally stowing the bomb in a suitcase and leaving it in the closet where Murray is concealed. Murray escapes and deposits the suitcase in the delicatessen store. Finlayson races after Kalla to prevent him from doing violence, and Kala chases Murray, shouting threats. Meanwhile, an innocent bystander thinks Murray forgot his suitcase and tries to give it to him. None of the men in the building will have anything to do with it. knowing its dangerous con tents. They rush away from that vicinity, but it is too late. The bomb explodes, scattering them right and left and leaving them groggy and in tatters.