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Traveling Salesman (1921 film)

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Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Joseph Henabery

Cinematography
  
Karl Brown

Distributor
  
Paramount Pictures

Traveling Salesman 1921 film Wikipedia


Cast
  
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
(Bob Blake),
Betty Ross Clarke
(Beth Elliott),
Frank Holland
(Franklin Royce),
Wilton Taylor
(Martin Drury)

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Writer
  
James Forbes
,
Walter Woods

Release date
  
June 5, 1921 (1921-06-05)

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

Similar movies
  
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Traveling Salesman is a 1921 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle. It is based on a 1908 play, The Traveling Salesman, by James Grant Forbes. A 1916 film of the play starred Frank McIntyre who had also starred in the play. It is not known whether either film currently survives.

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Plot

As described in a film publication, Bob Blake (Arbuckle), a travelling salesman, is the victim of a practical joke and gets off the train before his intended destination of Grand River. Bob is drenched in the pouring rain and, when he cannot find lodging, breaks into a private house that the sheriff is going to sell for a tax delinquency. The house belongs to Beth Elliott (Clarke), a telegraph operator at Grand River Station. Bob looks her up so he can pay for his lodging and falls in love with her. Franklin Royce (Holland), also in love with Beth, is jealous of Bob and accepts a proposition from Martin Drury (Taylor) to trick Beth out of the proceeds of the tax sale. In the end, Bob saves the house and wins the girl.

Cast

  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Bob Blake
  • Betty Ross Clarke as Beth Elliott
  • Frank Holland as Franklin Royce
  • Wilton Taylor as Martin Drury
  • Lucille Ward as Mrs. Babbitt
  • Jim Blackwell as Julius
  • Richard Wayne as Ted Watts
  • George C. Pearce as John Kimball (as George Pearce)
  • Robert Dudley as Pierce Gill
  • Gordon Rogers as Bill Crabb
  • References

    Traveling Salesman (1921 film) Wikipedia
    Traveling Salesman (1921 film) themoviedb.org Traveling Salesman (1921 film) IMDb