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Released
1923 · FILM

Kill or Cure

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
11 min
Language
XX
ComedyShort

Synopsis

In the film, Laurel plays a commercial traveler promoting a patent medicine called Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All; the name is considered one of the film's funniest jokes, though the movie itself is not particularly notable for humor. It was made in 1923, during the height of Prohibition in the United States. At the time, many Americans turned to patent medicines that claimed to have "medicinal" properties, often as a way to obtain products containing alcohol.

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Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Frank Young

Also known as

  • 4 Clownsde
  • Laurel und Hardy im Flegelalterde
  • Slapstick: Friss oder Stirbde

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