Good Night, Nurse!
This article is about the short film. For the punk band, see Goodnight Nurse.
| Good Night, Nurse! | |
|---|---|
 Film stills | |
| 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 dates | July 6, 1918[1] |
Running time | 26 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Good Night, Nurse! is a 1918 American short comedy film written and directed by Fatty Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The action centers in a sanitarium Arbuckle's character was brought to by his wife, involuntarily, to be operated on by Keaton's character for his alcoholism.
Cast
The cast is listed in credits order.
- Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Fatty
- Buster Keaton as Dr. Hampton/woman with umbrella
- Al St. John as Surgeon's Assistant
- Alice Lake as Crazy Woman
- Joe Bordeaux (credited as Joe Bordeau)
- Kate Price as Nurse
- Dan Albert as Butler / Hospital orderly (uncredited)
- Joe Keaton as Man in Bandages (uncredited)
Reception
Like many American films of the time, Good Night, Nurse! was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, Fatty kicking woman, Fatty putting foot on woman's posterior, and Fatty pulling dress off woman and exposing her figure.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Knopf, Robert (August 2, 1999). The theater and cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-691-00442-6. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ↑ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 7 (4): 49. July 20, 1918.
External links
- The short film Good Night, Nurse! is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Good Night, Nurse! at the Internet Movie Database
- Good Night, Nurse! on YouTube
- Good Night, Nurse! at the International Buster Keaton Society
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