Cruel and Unusual (1916) [NR]
Featuring:
Harry Watson, George Bickel, Rosa Gore
Directed by:
Louis Myll
Release Date:
March 1, 1916
Original Title:
Cruel and Unusual
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
George Kleine Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 17
Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.
Musty Suffer gets a job as caddy, but performs so poorly that he doesn't hold it long. So he decides to tee off on his own account. He finds that the clubs are too small and calls upon his famous lucky horseshoe for aid, wishing for larger clubs. A fairy tramp appears and grants his wish. Even then his game is not satisfactory, but he solves the difficulty by wishing for a larger ball, which he gets. He knocks the ball into the clubhouse, ruining the club members' dinner, and later on gets into difficulties with a waiter, who breaks one of the clubs across his fat body. Stomach pains naturally result, and when Musty sees an advertisement offering free treatment and free board to hook-worm victims, he applies for treatment and gets it. And it is some treatment. He is mauled, pounded, beaten, pummeled, kicked, thrown about, walked upon and otherwise maltreated until the "hook-worm" is forced to give up the ghost. Then, after trapping the hands of his "doctors" in the viselike fingerprint machine. Musty appropriates one of the chief doctors' cigars and makes his departure.
