Operating on Cupid

1915 11 minutes Directed by Horace Davey

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About Operating on Cupid

Billie Rhodes takes a nurse's job at a hospital run by Neal Burns. She and Ray Gallagher are already a couple, but Burns wants her and tells her she will get no time off. Gallagher checks himself in as a patient so he can see her. Burns then sets out to operate on his brain.

Cast & crew

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Horace Davey directed. Al Christie wrote it. David Horsley produced the short for Nestor, a Universal brand. It runs 11 minutes. IMDb dates it 29 November 1915.

Themes

  • A boyfriend who fakes an admission
  • A surgeon rival with a knife
  • hospital
  • nurse
  • Billie Rhodes
  • brain surgery gag
  • Nestor
  • Neal Burns

Preservation

The EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam holds a print.

Notes

  • Burns uses a plumbing U-bend as a periscope and pats his hands in a Ford Sterling-style routine.
  • Christie had said that year that his unit would drop rough slapstick. This short still has the surgery gag.
  • Universal released Nestor comedies as split or single reels in 1915.

Scenes

  • Gallagher signs himself into Burns's hospital to reach Rhodes.
  • Burns prepares to operate on his head.

Also available

  • EYE Filmmuseum (FLM49565)