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One Too Many (1916 film)

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One Too Many
Full film
Directed byWill Louis
Produced byLouis Burstein
StarringOliver Hardy
Release date
  • February 17, 1916 (1916-02-17)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent with English intertitles

One Too Many is a 1916 American silent film starring Oliver Hardy.[1]

Plot

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Plump wakes with a hangover. He finds a note under the door from his uncle saying he will visit him "and his wife and baby" at 2 o'clock. It is 11am and he has no wife and baby. He is staying in a hotel. The bellboy is trying to take a heavy trunk upstairs. He gives the bellboy $50 to find him a baby. He finds a toddler in another room and is then asked to find a wife. Plump's friend Roy enters the room with the child and moves the child. The bellboy bribes the janitor's wife to play Plump's wife. He goes outside and hires a baby from a woman.

Meanwhile Plump finds the first baby and takes it back. The bellboy is collecting children including a little black girl. The first child's mother returns and finds her child with Plump. She takes him away but Roy steals it again. He hides in a cupboard. The bellboy brings a cot up and Plump pays him to "be the baby". Uncle John arrives as Plump is shaving he stubble off his baby. The child starts crying from he cupboard... then the wives begin to appear.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: One Too Many". Silent Era. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
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