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The Fly Cop

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Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Arvid E. Gillstrom

Cast
  
Oliver Hardy, Billy West

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
September 1, 1917 (1917-09-01)

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

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The Fly Cop is a 1917 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

Contents

Cast

  • Billy West as The Fly Cop
  • Oliver Hardy as Proprietor (credited as Babe Hardy)
  • Bud Ross as Handyman (credited as Budd Ross)
  • Leo White as The Mayor
  • Ellen Burford as Forelady
  • Charles Slattery as Chief of Police
  • Ethelyn Gibson as A Chicken (credited as Ethlyn Gibson)

    • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, The Fly Cop was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts in scenes of a man pulling an artificial leg from a girl and of a girl pulling her skirt above her knees while walking across a wet floor.

    References

    The Fly Cop Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Fly Cop IMDb


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