Alas! Poor Yorick!
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Genre Comedy, Short Country United States | Director Colin Campbell Writer Colin Campbell Language Silent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date April 21, 1913 (1913-04-21) Genres Comedy, Short Film, Silent film, Indie film, Black-and-white Cast Wheeler Oakman (Montgomery Irving - the Real Actor), Tom Santschi (The Deranged Actor), Lillian Hayward , Hobart Bosworth , John Lancaster , Frank Clark Similar movies A Fine Mess , The Nines , Curtain Call , Trust Me , The Real Blonde , L'enfant prodige | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alas! Poor Yorick! is a 1913 American short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. The film's title is taken from the Shakespeare play Hamlet. The film was both written and directed by Colin Campbell, and was released on April 21, 1913.
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A mentally insane patient who in his mind is an amazing actor escapes from a psychiatric hospital. Every theater manager in town was notified and the first man that causes suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a poor actor in disgrace who honestly looks and acts crazy. He applies for the position, but he doesn't understand why he is arrested without any reason, when he was about to destroy the house the manager is informed that the real patient was captured somewhere else.
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Alas! Poor Yorick! Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Alas! Poor Yorick! IMDb Alas! Poor Yorick! themoviedb.org
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