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The European Rest Cure

190413 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

An American traveller seeks rest abroad and finds a succession of exhausting mishaps. Seasickness, falls, unwelcome adventures and an energetic treatment leave him returning home in worse condition than he departed.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
13:06
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Edwin Stanton Porter · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsEdwin S. Porter

Behind the scenes

Porter stages a comic travel itinerary built from recognizable tourist attractions. The film's imagined geography even folds Egypt into its advertised European journey.

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