This 15-minute black-and-white silent short film will have its 100th birthday in February next year and may it already happened when you read my review here. The only reason this short film is not entirely unknown is probably because it features one of the greatest stars of his generation before his rise to huge stardom: Oliver Hardy. He made several Plump short films actually and the name is very fitting, because even at his young age here, he is already pretty big. He looks sort of funny with his massive stature in contrast to his babyface. Talking about babyfaces, he spends basically the entire movie looking for a baby, but even at only 15 minutes I felt that the material was just not enough and that's why it did not turn out a film I would recommend. Also in here is Billy Bletcher, who became one of the most respected and most prolific voice actors of his generation in the decades after. Oh yeah and a Charlie Chaplin lookalike is in here as well. Given the fact that Chaplin's popularity was possibly at its peak in 1916, this was probably no coincidence. I recommend this only to the biggest Stan&Ollie fans. Everybody else does not need to see it.
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