Synopsis: At an inn, a mysterious lodger arrives (it is suggested that he is the devil himself). He performs magic feats with his sword, such as setting a table without actually touching anything. A clumsy employee at the inn is envious of these magical powers, and so gets up at night and steals the sword. When he attempts to employ it, however, things go terribly wrong and the objects around him - like dishes and rugs - rebel and make a mess. The lodger awakens and notices his sword is missing. He finally encounters it and witnesses the disasters provoked by the employee.
Appraisal: Within its limited pretensions, this fantastic comedy succeeds at entertaining.
NOTE: The original French title of this movie remains unknown to me. In the web, there are some sites - none of them of French language - that report it as being "L'épée du spirite", and the year as 1909. I consider this information to be very unreliable; the French word 'spirite' means a person that follows the doctrine of spiritism, and this obviously is not the case here. Browsing through the titles which IMDb credit to de Chomón, the most promising one seems to be "Le chevalier mystère (1908)", but I could not ascertain that it is the right title, since there isn't a synopsis available for it.
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