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The Hobo's Rest Cure

1912 · 20 min

A breezy silent comedy of harmless mischief, easy to dip into and forget.

Overview
Bill Grogan, a happy hobo, having successfully eluded all sorts of allurements to go to work and having discharged himself from several easy jobs after numerous attempts to get painlessly injured, frightens a chauffeur into believing that he had been injured by a baby carriage. Eventually he reaches the limit of his restful ambition by getting a cot in a hospital.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • class
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism4
Romance0
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight1

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Chauncy D. Herbert
Written by
Fred Giolma
Starring
Thomas Commerford, Joseph Hazelton, John Lancaster, Charles Barney, John F. Fernlock, Alfred Downs
Runtime
20 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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