The Hobo
About The Hobo
A hobo hiding under a freight car follows Dolly, the station agent's daughter, into a small depot and gets the job the assistant agent just quit. He wrecks the ticket window and the lunch counter. Dolly's sweetheart Harold, played by Oliver Hardy, is in the middle of it. Society crook Mr. Fox trades a broken car for a ticket, and the car turns out to be stolen. The police take Fox, and the hobo is paid a reward. He gives the money to Dolly and gets on a train.
Cast & crew
More about The Hobo
Arvid E. Gillstrom directed. Louis Burstein produced. King Bee distributed the two-reeler. Moving Picture World carried a synopsis on November 3, 1917. No copyright was registered.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives and has been transferred to Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Billy West plays the hobo, in a costume close to Chaplin's tramp.
- Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, plays Harold. Leo White plays Mr. Fox. Bud Ross and Virginia Clark are in the station scenes.
- Wikipedia's longer plot also has Hardy eating a stack of pancakes at the lunch counter before the hobo arrives.
- A Commons file of the short is online.
Scenes
- The hobo takes the ticket job and the window comes apart.
- He puts the reward money in Dolly's hand and boards the train.
