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The Bell Boy (1918)

The Bell Boy poster
Directed by
Roscoe Arbuckle
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
33 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 59 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two bellboys work at a hotel and get into a series of mischievous antics. Their jobs lead to chaos involving guests and hotel equipment.

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What happens

The Bell Boy is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for the Comique film company. The film stars Arbuckle and Buster Keaton as bellboys in the Elk's Head Hotel. Much of the material in the film was later re-used by Keaton in his 1937 film Love Nest on Wheels. One sequence involving a mop was reused by Keaton in one of his last film appearances in The Scribe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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