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Good Night Nurse

Good Night Nurse

1918Short⏱️ 26m
ShortComedy
6.1
IMDB Rating
1,419 votes

Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.

Director
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writers
N/A
Stars
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John
Release Date
July 8, 1918
Language
None, English
Country
United States
💬 13
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
as Fatty
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
as Dr. Hampton
Al St. John
Al St. John
as Surgeon's Assistant
Alice Lake
Alice Lake
as Crazy Woman
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Joe Bordeaux
Kate Price
Kate Price
as Nurse
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Dan Albert
as Butler
Snitz Edwards
Snitz Edwards
as Drunken Man
Joe Keaton
Joe Keaton
as Man in Bandages

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Arrowhead Hot Spring, California, USA
Production
Comique Film Company

🏷️ Keywords

windstormmale police officercrossdressingpratfallslapstick

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

Fantastic
by gbill-748772023-04-01
8/10

"The sequence in the rain that opens this short is fantastic, maybe one of the best comedic portrayals of being drunk. There are so many funny bits here, including Arbuckle repeatedly trying to light a cigarette in the downpour, a woman with an umbrella (Buster Keaton!) being blown into him and then down the street horizontally by the gale, and Arbuckle trying to mail a fellow drunk (Snitz Edwards) home after writing his address on his shirt and stamping his forehead. Check out the high kick to the face Keaton gives him, one of two in the film (the other is delivered by Joe Keaton, Buster'..."

💡 Did You Know?

Included in "Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection" blu-ray set, released by Kino.

📖 Synopsis

Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.