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Kid Boots (film)

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Kid Boots
Lobby card
Directed byFrank Tuttle
Written byLuther Reed (adaptation)
Tom Gibson (screenplay)
George Marion Jr. (titles)
Based onKid Boots
by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
StarringEddie Cantor
Clara Bow
CinematographyVictor Milner
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 4, 1926 (1926-10-04)
Running time
9 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
The full film

Kid Boots is a 1926 American silent feature comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, and based on the 1923 musical written by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach.[1] This was entertainer Eddie Cantor's first film. A print is preserved at the Library of Congress.[2][3][4][5]

Plot

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Kid Boots is a put-upon clerk in a men's tailor shop. When Big Boyle storms in to buy a new suit, the service he receives is so inept that he destroys the shop trying to throttle Boots.

Boots flees for his life, stopping only to make Clara McCoy's acquaintance. Attempting to hide in a hotel, Boots becomes an accidental witness to the infidelity of a rich man's wife. The rich man, Tom Sterling, has a $100,000.00 settlement suit at stake. So he keeps Boots close to him as a character witness.

Boots and his new friend lie low at a posh golf resort, and all is well until it is discovered Clara McCoy and the bullying Big Boyle also work there. Big Boyle eventually subjects Boots to a brutal massage and electroshock treatments. Boots escapes only when the bully laughs so hard he accidentally sits in his own electric chair.

Boots oversleeps the day of the important divorce hearing. The only way to reach the courthouse on time is on horseback. McCoy follows Boots, and the jealous Big Boyle follows her. This results in a hair-raising stunt chase where the characters take turn dangling from precipices and swaying on teeter-totters.

Boots ends up parachuting onto the courthouse roof, arriving just in time to deliver his vital testimony.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Kid Boots
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Kid Boots at silentera.com
  3. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30, The American Film Institute, c.1971
  4. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978
  5. ^ The Library of congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Kid Boots
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