Nuts in May (film)
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Director Robin Williamson Duration | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Short Cinematography Harry M. Fowler Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent filmEnglish intertitles Release date 1917 (1917) Similar movies Stan Laurel appears in Nuts in May and Mixed Nuts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nuts in May (1917) is a silent comedy short, directed by Robin Williamson, produced by Isadore Bernstein, and featuring Stan Laurel, billed as Stan Jefferson, in his onscreen debut.
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The short was filmed at Bernstein Studios, in Hollywood, California. Very little of the film survives (a little over 60 seconds).
Nuts in may
Plot
Stan plays a resident of "Home for the Weak-Minded", apparently a lunatic asylum. Stan's particular delusion is that he thinks he's Napoleon. Stan walks the grounds of the cuckoo-hatch sticking his right hand into his shirt and wearing a Napoleon hat. He thinks he's Napoleon, but he gives the salute of the British army.
Stan has his own personal keeper in the asylum: a taller moustached man who wears a kepi so that Stan will think he's a French officer.
Stan gets out and finds some local boys, who eagerly join him in playing soldier. Stan's kepi-wearing keeper pursues him through the film. Stan hijacks a steamroller, and Stan nearly runs down some workers in a road crew.
The surviving footage consists of Stan in various scrapes with a steamroller, ending with him in a straw boater being dragged off to the asylum.
Cast and crew
References
Nuts in May (film) WikipediaNuts in May (film) IMDb