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1928Short
ComedyShort
6.7
IMDB Rating
19 votes

A young man is part of a traveling medicine show owned by an elderly "professor" and his beautiful daughter. His job is to keep the audience entertained with his ventriloquist's act (which includes a monkey) while the professor ha...

Director
Larry Semon
Writers
C. Graham Baker, Larry Semon
Stars
Larry Semon, Marie Astaire, James Donnelly
Release Date
January 1, 1928
Language
None, English
Country
United States
💬 1
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Larry Semon
Larry Semon
as The Entertainer
Marie Astaire
Marie Astaire
as The Professor's Daughter
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James Donnelly
as The Professor
👤
William Dennis
👤
Paul Dennis

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Chadwick Pictures Corporation

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

Do the Gag and Let the Rest Go
by boblipton2014-02-11
5/10

"Larry Semon works for Colonel Quack's medicine show. When the Colonel is kidnapped for no particular reason, Larry does a bunch of gags involving the Colonel's monkey, a railroad track several miles high and the Colonel's collection of mannequins. Semon's short comedies were very popular, despite their ever-expanding budgets that made them flops. Even today, if you see them in a show, you will hear a lot of laughter from the small children. More mature audiences, however, like a little story and character continuity in their comedy and Semon never offered much of that. Ins..."

📖 Synopsis

A young man is part of a traveling medicine show owned by an elderly "professor" and his beautiful daughter. His job is to keep the audience entertained with his ventriloquist's act (which includes a monkey) while the professor ha...