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Good Night, Nurse! (1918)

Good Night, Nurse! poster
Directed by
Roscoe Arbuckle
Genre
short film, comedy film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
26 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 58 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wife gets fed up with her husband's drinking and checks him into a sanitarium that claims to fix any case of alcoholism. The husband and the sanitarium's staff get into a series of messy and funny physical mishaps.

slapstickchaoticlightheartedfast-pacedwhimsicalplayfulsillyphysical-comedy

What happens

Good Night, Nurse! is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, and directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton. Roscoe's character's wife reaches the last straw with his drinking and admits him to the No Hope Sanatorium, which promises to cure all cases of alcoholism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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