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The Slave (1917 comedy film)

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Country
  
United States

Director
  
Arvid E. Gillstrom

The Slave (1917 comedy film) The Slave 1917 IMDb


Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Release date
  
December 15, 1917 (1917-12-15)

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The Slave is a 1917 American silent comedy film starring Billy West and featuring Oliver Hardy. It was unusual for a silent film in that, because it told its story so plainly, subtitles or intertitles were not considered necessary. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Contents

Cast

  • Billy West as Billy, the slave
  • Oliver Hardy as The Sultan of Bacteria
  • Leo White as The Vizier
  • Bud Ross as Haratius Crabbe, the collector (credited as Budd Ross)
  • Leatrice Joy as Susie, his daughter
  • Gladys Varden as The Sultan's favorite
  • Ethel Cassity
  • Ellen Burford
  • Martha Dean
  • Ethelyn Gibson
  • Joe Bordeaux
  • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, The Slave was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Reel 1, cuts of the entire incident of man throwing a lobster on a woman's back and all scenes of it on her back, the sultan poking man in back with dagger, and in Reel 2 the last two scenes of pulling the man through window where his trousers come off.

    References

    The Slave (1917 comedy film) Wikipedia
    The Slave (1917 comedy film) IMDb