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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 751

Kid Boots

192660 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 60:04
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Frank Tuttle · Public domain

Synopsis

A timid tailor's clerk flees an enraged customer and accidentally witnesses evidence important to a wealthy man's divorce. Kept nearby as a potential witness, he reaches a golf resort where the people he was escaping turn up again. Getting to the hearing becomes a frantic adventure involving romantic jealousy, horses and hazardous shortcuts.

Cast

Eddie Cantor

Clara Bow

DirectorsFrank Tuttle

Behind the scenes

Eddie Cantor made his film debut in this adaptation of the stage musical. The silent version carries the comic persona through physical situations, with Clara Bow joining the increasingly disorderly chase.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Eddie Cantor — NBC Radio; eBay item photo front photo back · Public domain
Clara Bow — Harold Dean Carsey (1886-1947) · Public domain

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