Two con men trick a wealthy family into thinking a 300 pound man is a baby in this 1918 silent comedy.Two con men trick a wealthy family into thinking a 300 pound man is a baby in this 1918 silent comedy.Two con men trick a wealthy family into thinking a 300 pound man is a baby in this 1918 silent comedy.
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Two crooks pass the larger of the two -- Hilliard Karr -- as a foundling. He is dressed in baby clothes and mooned over by half a dozen nurses and doting adoptive parents, while the latter stays in a dog house in the yard. But they have plans to break open the safe within.
The central joke of this short comedy is that Hilliard Karr is a full-grown man, and enormously fat; in the 1920s, Joe Rock would team him up with two other fatties to play in. A series of comedies, in which the joke was that they were fat. Billed as "The Three Fatties" or "The Ton of Fun", they seem to have been moderately popular. Here, Hilliard and the reactions to him are just bizarre.
The central joke of this short comedy is that Hilliard Karr is a full-grown man, and enormously fat; in the 1920s, Joe Rock would team him up with two other fatties to play in. A series of comedies, in which the joke was that they were fat. Billed as "The Three Fatties" or "The Ton of Fun", they seem to have been moderately popular. Here, Hilliard and the reactions to him are just bizarre.
This entry would seem to be a "ghost". The film in question is seemingly Florida Film Company's "Fatty Filbert" comedy Fred's Fictitious Foundling (1918). Someone or other seems to have just stuck a fake front on it advertising it as "A Nikelodeon Film" called Bouncing Baby and misdated it 1916.
Alternatively the 1916 version (Bouncing Baby) might be the original subsquently re-released but since no films are known by Josh Binney, producer/director and founder of the Florida company, or by Nathan Dewing, who played Fatty Filbert in this and a handful of other films, before 1918, this seems unlikely. And why should two years have passed before the film was re-released and before any other "Fatty Filbert" comedies were made?
Alternatively the 1916 version (Bouncing Baby) might be the original subsquently re-released but since no films are known by Josh Binney, producer/director and founder of the Florida company, or by Nathan Dewing, who played Fatty Filbert in this and a handful of other films, before 1918, this seems unlikely. And why should two years have passed before the film was re-released and before any other "Fatty Filbert" comedies were made?
Did you know
- TriviaIncorrectly credited as a Vim Comedy starring Oliver Hardy. He does not appear in this.
- GoofsWhile racing across the rooftops of downtown Jacksonville, the "Baby" and his cohort in crime plunge down a chimney. The chimney shifts on the rooftop when they first jump into it, revealing it as a prop.
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