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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1498

Good Night, Nurse!

191826 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
22:38
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Roscoe Arbuckle · Public domain

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Synopsis

After another drunken night, a man's wife sends him to a sanatorium promising a cure. The frightening doctor and preparations for an operation make escape seem more attractive than treatment.

Cast

DirectorsRoscoe Arbuckle

Behind the scenes

Arbuckle plays the reluctant patient opposite Keaton's doctor. The film turns institutional authority and medical equipment into obstacles in an extended physical comedy.

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