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Smart Work

1931 · 10 min

A breezy ten-minute farce of mistaken suspicions, played broad and fast, easy to dip into and forget.

Directed by
Roscoe Arbuckle
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Billy Dooley, Addie McPhail
Overview
Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.

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Directed by
Roscoe Arbuckle
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Billy Dooley, Addie McPhail
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • campystrength 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
  • deception
  • love
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism5
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Roscoe Arbuckle
Written by
Ernest Pagano, Jack Townley
Starring
Billy Dooley, Addie McPhail
Cinematography
George Webber
Runtime
10 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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