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The Freckled Fish (1919)

The Freckled Fish poster
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This silent comedy follows a character similar to Charlie Chaplin as he gets into mild misadventures. Oliver Hardy appears in one of his early roles. The action is simple and the story is only fairly entertaining.

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What happens

The Freckled Fish is a 1919 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Simon Louvish describes this as part of the "Charlie from the Orient" series starring Chai Hong as a kind of "Chinese Charlie Chaplin." Reviews were tepid, with The Moving Picture World declaring that "the action is too indefinite to hold the attention closely, and the number as a whole is only fair." This was Hardy's last film with L-KO studios before he joined Vitagraph. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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