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Call of the Cuckoo

192719 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A family exchanges its house to escape troublesome neighbours, only to discover that the new home barely holds together. Crossed pipes, faulty fittings and a disastrous party turn the move into an escalating ordeal.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
18:41
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Clyde Bruckman · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsClyde Bruckman

Historical context

Max Davidson leads the comedy, with appearances by several other Hal Roach performers. Laurel and Hardy are among the neighbours, while the family's new house supplies the main machinery of disaster.

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  • Max Davidson — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=105300 · Public domain

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