For Two Pins is a lost 1914 American silent comedy film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and starring Jimmy Hodges, Marguerite Ne Moyer, and Raymond McKee.
[2] For Two Pins is one of several short comedies made in the spring of 1914 that include the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy.
The bumbling cops who appeared in For Two Pins and many other Lubin split-reel silent comedies were modeled on the Keystone Cops, who appeared in shorts produced by Mack Sennett for the Keystone Film Company.
[2] Most of the reviews of For Two Pins in the trade papers focused on the role of the cops as the film's primary laugh producers.
The New York Dramatic Mirror wrote, "While not to be taken seriously as concerns its plot, there are in this the phoney police and all the trained tumblers that the company could command",[2] The Bioscope noted briefly that "the full strength of the force is employed upon a farcical business",[3] and the judgment of Moving Picture World was that "the Lubin comedy police force always compel laughter".