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The Fable of the Roistering Blades (1915)

The Fable of the Roistering Blades poster
Directed by
Richard Foster Baker
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
10 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A short silent comedy about a group of young men who behave with rowdy and boastful manners. Their antics lead to a series of amusing situations.

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What happens

The Fable of the Roistering Blades is a 1915 short film directed by Richard Foster Baker, based upon a story by George Ade, and starring Wallace Beery and Charles J. Stine. The silent short was produced by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and distributed by the General Film Company. Beery was thirty years old at the time of filming. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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