The Chocolate of the Gang (1918)

• 82%
• 1918
• Comedy
• Drama
• King Vidor
• Thomas Bellamy
• Ruth Hampton
• Ernest Butterworth Jr.

Thomas Bellamy, a small colored boy, is denied membership in the P. D. Q. Club, a secret organization composed of white boys, because of his color, but this does not dampen his ardor. The members of the club keep close watch upon all who approach the vicinity of their unique club room with the aid of a cleverly constructed periscope, and one day notice a negro man in the act of storing pigeons in the loft of his barn. The boys learn that a reward is offered for the return of four stolen pigeons, and determine to take the pigeons and claim the reward. They are followed by the colored lad who arrives in time to receive the pigeons as they are tossed to the ground from the window above, but the owner of the barn and a policeman arrive upon the scene in time to accuse the negro boy of the theft. He is taken to court to answer the charge and the P. D. Q. members, who have escaped by means of the back door, follow the accused boy and tell the court that he is guilty of stealing the pigeons. The conscience stricken members of the gang bring the young woman owner of the lost pigeons to court, and a clever test is made to determine the real owner of the prize birds. They fly out of the window to their former home, thus resulting in the arrest of the negro man for their theft. The members of the P. D. Q. "square things" by inviting the colored boy to become a member of their secret order for trying to live up to the oath of "never snitching.