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Kid Boots (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Kid Boots' is a 1926 American silent feature comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, and based on the 1923 musical written by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10066 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'Kid Boots'] This was entertainer Eddie Cantor's first film. A print is preserved at the Library of Congress.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KidBoots1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Kid Boots'] at silentera.com'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30', The American Film Institute, c.1971'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress' by The American Film Institute, c.1978[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1060/default.html The Library of congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'Kid Boots']
Plot
After a stranger helps him out of a jam with a bully, Samuel "Kid" Boots tries to return the favor by helping his new friend get free from a gold-digging wife.
Kid Boots(Cantor) is a put-upon clerk in a men's tailor shop.When Malcolm Waite storms in to buy a new suit,the service he receives
is so inept that he destroys the shop trying to throttle Boots.
Boots flees for his life,stopping only to make Bow's acquaintance.Attempting to hide in a hotel,Boots becomes accidental
witness to the infidelity of a rich man's wife.The rich man,Tom Sterling(Lawrence Grey) has a $100,000.00 settlement suit at
stake.So he keeps Boots close to him as a character witness.
Boots and his new friend lay low at a posh golf resort and all is well until it is discovered Bow and the bullying
Waite also work there.Waite eventually subjects Boots to a brutal massage and electroshock treatments.Boots escapes
only when the bully laughs so hard he accidentally sits in his own electric chair.
Boots oversleeps the day of the important divorce hearing.The only way to reach the courthouse on time is on horseback.
Bow follows Boots,and the jealous Waite follows Bow.This results in a hair-raising stunt chase where the characters take turns
dangling from precipices and swaying on teeter-totters.
Boots ends up parachuting onto the courthouse roof,arriving just in time to deliver his vital testimony.
Cast
See also
*'A Few Moments With Eddie Cantor, Star of "Kid Boots"' (1924) short film made in the sound-on-film Phonofilm process, with Cantor performing an excerpt of 'Kid Boots'
References
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