Bears and Bad Men
About Bears and Bad Men
Larry Cutshaw is thrown in with the Cutshaw family and the Slawsons. Pete is in the middle of it. Two bears, Bessie and Brownie, are on the set with the bad men, and the short ends in a chase that uses both.
Cast & crew
More about Bears and Bad Men
Larry Semon wrote and directed it and plays Larry Cutshaw. Albert E. Smith produced it. Vitagraph released it on October 7, 1918. A circulating copy runs 20 minutes and 21 seconds. Stan Laurel plays Pete. Madge Kirby plays the Slawson daughter. Frank Alexander plays Paw Slawson. Blanche Payson plays Maw Cutshaw. Mae Laurel plays a scared woman. The Chicago Board of Censors cut a reel-1 gag of a man looking at a goat and then putting it off his lap after water pours from a bucket.
Themes
Making
Semon put Laurel and two named bears into a two-reel Vitagraph chase.
Preservation
A circulating copy runs 20 minutes and 21 seconds.
Notes
- The bears are billed as Bessie and Brownie.
- William McCall plays a stranded actor. Pete Gordon plays Paw Cutshaw.
- Chicago's cut is the goat and the bucket, not the bears.
- Laurel is Pete, not the lead.
Scenes
- The bears are in the scrap with the bad men.
- Chicago ordered out the goat-and-bucket gag.
