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Dough Nuts (1917)

Dough Nuts poster
Directed by
Arvid E. Gillstrom
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent comedy follows a character played by Oliver Hardy who gets into mishaps at a bakery. The short film relies on physical humor and pratfalls.

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What happens

Dough Nuts is a 1917 American 2-reel silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Hardy was from Georgia, and some theaters there promoted the comedy as featuring a local. Historian Blair Miller compared this film to Charlie Chaplin's earlier film Dough and Dynamite. It was also known as The Bakery, and no copyright was registered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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