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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1307

The Perfect Clown

192555 minUnited States

Synopsis

A clerk is entrusted with a large sum just as the bank closes. Trying to deliver it to the bank president instead, he turns a routine deposit into a night of increasingly difficult complications.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 50:27
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 · Fred C. Newmeyer / Chadwick Pictures · Public domain

Cast

Larry Semon

Kate Price

DirectorsFred C. Newmeyer

Behind the scenes

Larry Semon leads the cast, with Oliver Hardy in an early supporting appearance. Fred C. Newmeyer directs a feature-length extension of a simple slapstick predicament.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

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

Larry Semon — Albert Witzel · Public domain
Kate Price — Ruth Harriet Louise; The Motion Picture Director (December 1925) https://archive.org/details/motionpicturedir02moti · Public domain

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