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The Hobo

191715 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A tramp's pursuit of food and a young woman creates disorder around a railway station. Moving between its ticket office and lunch counter, he becomes entangled with jealous customers, hurried travellers and an increasingly chaotic meal service.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
20:13
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 · Louis Burstein · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsArvid E. Gillstrom

Historical context

Billy West plays a character modelled on Chaplin's Tramp, with Oliver Hardy among the supporting performers. The imitation belongs to the rapid spread of Chaplin-like figures across silent comedy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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