Horseshoes
About Horseshoes
A boxer offers fifty dollars to anyone who can last a minute with him. A mix-up, including a tomato in the boxer's face, puts Larry in the ring. He knocks the boxer out with horseshoes hidden on him. When the boxer wakes and learns how it was done, he chases Larry. Oliver Hardy plays the boxer, Dynamite Duffy.
Cast & crew
More about Horseshoes
James D. Davis and Larry Semon directed and produced. Semon wrote the comedy and plays Larry. Vitagraph released the two-reeler on 10 December 1923. Wikidata times it at 15 minutes. Al Thompson plays a grocer.
Themes
Making
Semon put Hardy in the heavy's role, the boxer with the open challenge, and kept the payoff in the title: the horseshoes, not a punch.
Preservation
UCLA's Film and Television Archive holds reel 2 on nitrate. A digital copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Hardy's character name on the Lord Heath cast list is Dynamite Duffy.
- Researcher Simon Myers has ruled out Kathleen Myers as the grocer's daughter. That part is unidentified.
- UCLA holds reel 2 of the nitrate. The Lord Heath note says reel 1 was the one thought missing.
- An Internet Archive copy is listed as silent-horseshoes.
Scenes
- The boxer posts fifty dollars for anyone who lasts a minute.
- Larry hits him with a tomato and then ends up in the ring.
- The horseshoes knock Duffy out. He wakes and runs after Larry.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-horseshoes)
