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Business Before Honesty

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Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Producers
  
Abe Stern, Julius Stern

Director
  
Charley Chase

Cast
  
Oliver Hardy, May Emory

Country
  
United States

Language
  
Silent filmEnglish intertitles

Release date
  
August 1918 (1918-08)

Genres
  
Comedy, Short Film, Indie film, Silent film, Black-and-white

Similar movies
  
One Terrible Day (1922), Our Gang (1922), Saved by the Belle (1939), Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938), Mutts to You (1938)

Business Before Honesty is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

Contents

Cast

  • Harry Gribbon as Willie Steal
  • Oliver Hardy as The Blind Man (credited as Babe Hardy)
  • Eddie Barry as Nellie
  • May Emory as The Woman (as Mae Emory)
  • Helen Lynch as Her Daughter

    • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, Business Before Honesty was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 1, of two closeups of a fifty cent piece, and, Reel 2, scene of man looking suggestively at seat after first scene of pouring gasoline into safe.

    References

    Business Before Honesty Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Business Before Honesty IMDb


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