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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1624

Mighty Like a Moose

192623 minUnited States

Synopsis

A husband and wife secretly improve their appearances and then meet without recognizing each other. Both begin flirting with the attractive stranger, unaware that their imagined affair is taking place within their own marriage.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 22:45
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Leo McCarey · Public domain

Cast

Charley Chase

DirectorsLeo McCarey

Reception and legacy

Charley Chase's two-reel comedy was added to the United States National Film Registry in 2007. Leo McCarey builds the farce around recognition, concealment and the couple's changing appearances.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Charley Chase — Hal Roach; Hal Roach Studios · Public domain

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