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The Candy Kid

191713 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Rival confectioners compete for customers across a street, and one recruits a tramp to sabotage the other. A bomb passed between unwilling hands turns the plan against its organizer.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
13:33
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Arvid E. Gillstrom · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsArvid E. Gillstrom

Behind the scenes

Billy West uses his Chaplin-inspired tramp character alongside Oliver Hardy. Their workplace rivalry supplies the framework for King Bee's physical comedy.

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