A Country Hero
Appearance
A Country Hero | |
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Directed by | Roscoe Arbuckle |
Written by | Roscoe Arbuckle |
Starring | Roscoe Arbuckle Buster Keaton |
Cinematography | George Peters |
Edited by | Herbert Warren |
Production company | Comique Film Company |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 2 reels |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
A Country Hero is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton. The film is considered to be lost.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Village Blacksmith
- Buster Keaton as Vaudeville Artist
- Al St. John as City Gent
- Alice Lake as Schoolteacher
- Joe Keaton as Cy Klone, Garage Owner
- Scott Pembroke (as Stanley Pembroke)
- Natalie Talmadge as Bit Part (uncredited)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Knopf, Robert (August 2, 1999). The theater and cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-691-00442-6. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: A Country Hero". Silent Era. Retrieved February 26, 2008.
External links
[edit]- A Country Hero at IMDb
- A Country Hero at SilentEra
- A Country Hero at the International Buster Keaton Society
Categories:
- 1917 films
- 1917 lost films
- 1917 comedy films
- 1917 short films
- American silent short films
- American black-and-white films
- Silent American comedy films
- American comedy short films
- Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
- Films with screenplays by Roscoe Arbuckle
- Lost American comedy films
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- English-language comedy short films
- 1910s short comedy film stubs