Dull Care

{{use mdy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Dull Care | image = | caption = | director = Larry Semon | producer = Albert E. Smith | writer = Larry Semon | starring = Oliver Hardy | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{film date|1919|10|6}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = Silent with English intertitles }}

'''''Dull Care''''' is a 1919 American silent comedy film written and directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy. It was Semon and Hardy's first film together.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Louvish |first=Simon |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Stan_and_Ollie_The_Roots_of_Comedy/iSfU38xkO7AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22haunted%20hat%22 |title=Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy |date= |publisher=St. Martin's |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-312-32598-5 |location=New York |pages=134 |language=}}</ref>

== Plot == The following plot summary appeared in ''Wid's'' ''Daily'' (''The Film Daily)'' for December 16, 1919:<ref>{{Cite journal |date=December 16, 1919 |title=Some Short Reels: "Dull Care," Vitagraph |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdailyvolume9910newy/page/1014/mode/2up?q=%22few+funny+spots%22 |journal=Wid's Daily |pages=4 |via=The Internet Archive}}</ref> {{Blockquote|text=The best thing in the number is the broad comedy business in which a wife hides several men in her apartments, and when her husband, comedy police chief, comes home. This is in-and-out-of-hiding-places stuff that gets numerous laughs — also there is some fair chase stuff. The comedy is of the slapstick order, built around the efforts of the cops to round up the gang of crooks.<p> The finishing footage is quite speedy, but of the usual type of stuff' in which the burlesquers chase each other all over the top of a speeding trolley car and the like. The chase stuff contains a few thrills, too, chief of them being an automobile dashing over a cliff.</p>}}

==Cast== * Larry Semon as Larry, a Detective * William Hauber as Chief Crook (as Bill Hauber) * Frank Alexander as Chief of Police * Lucille Carlisle as Chief of Police's Wife * Oliver Hardy as A Janitor (as Babe Hardy)

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0270325|title=Dull Care}}

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Category:1919 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1919 comedy films Category:1919 short films Category:Films directed by Larry Semon Category:American silent comedy short films Category:1919 American films Category:1919 English-language films Category:English-language comedy short films