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This article is about the short film. For the punk band, see Goodnight Nurse.
Good Night, Nurse!
Film stills
Directed byRoscoe Arbuckle
Written byRoscoe Arbuckle
StarringRoscoe Arbuckle
Buster Keaton
CinematographyGeorge Peters
Edited byHerbert Warren
Production
company
Comique Film Company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
July 6, 1918[1]
Running time
26 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Good Night, Nurse! is a 1918 American short comedy film written and directed by Fatty Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The action centers in a sanitarium Arbuckle's character was brought to by his wife, involuntarily, to be operated on by Keaton's character for his alcoholism.

Cast

The cast is listed in credits order.

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Good Night, Nurse! was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, Fatty kicking woman, Fatty putting foot on woman's posterior, and Fatty pulling dress off woman and exposing her figure.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Knopf, Robert (August 2, 1999). The theater and cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-691-00442-6. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  2. ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (4). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 49. July 20, 1918.


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