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Excuse My Dust (1920)

Excuse My Dust poster
Directed by
Sam Wood
Genre
silent film, comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to win back his former sweetheart after she marries someone else. The story follows his comic and heartfelt attempts to rekindle their romance.

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What happens

Excuse My Dust! is a surviving 1920 American silent comedy-drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based upon a Saturday Evening Post short story "The Bear Trap" by Byron Morgan. Sam Wood directed Wallace Reid. Reid's young son, Wallace Jr., makes his first screen appearance here. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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