Business Before Honesty

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Business Before Honesty
Directed by Charley Chase
Produced by Abe Stern
Julius Stern
Starring Oliver Hardy
Production
company
L-KO Kompany
Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • August 1918 (1918-08)
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

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

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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. [1]

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References

  1. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (11): 57. September 7, 1918.