Home Cured

Last updated

Home Cured
Directed byWilliam Goodrich
(Roscoe Arbuckle)
Written byDonna Barrell
Starring Johnny Arthur
CinematographyByron Houck
Production
company
Goodwill Productions (as Tuxedo Comedies)
Distributed by Educational Film Exchanges
Release date
  • March 14, 1926 (1926-03-14)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Home Cured is a 1926 American silent short comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. [1] Although Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe, he could not obtain work in Hollywood under his own name, so he adopted the pseudonym William Goodrich for directing the comedy shorts he made under his contract with Educational Film Exchanges. [2]

Contents

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] a man who is always buying medicine for his imaginary ailments is put through a cure by his wife and his friend. He pretends he really is ill. Doctors, undertakers, and the sexton arrive and the wife and friend plan how they will spend his insurance money. The husband realizes they are trying to get rid of him. He chases his friend from the house, promising his wife he will not be sick again.

Cast

Preservation

An incomplete 16 mm copy is held by George Eastman House. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Home Cured at silentera.com
  2. ↑ Oderman, Stuart (2005). Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 201, 207. ISBN   978-0-7864-2277-7.
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: Home Cured". Exhibitors Herald. 25 (2). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 60 March 27, 1926. Retrieved April 17, 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ "Home Cured - [Incomplete]". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved August 30, 2025.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.