Wild Papa

{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Wild Papa | image = | caption = | director = Nicholas T. Barrows<br>J.A. Howe | producer = Hal Roach | writer = Malcolm Stuart Boylan<br>H. M. Walker | starring = Oliver Hardy | cinematography = Robert Doran<br>Frank Young | editing = Richard C. Currier | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1925|05|17}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = Silent film<br>English intertitles }}

'''''Wild Papa''''' is a 1925 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Louvish |first=Simon |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Stan_and_Ollie/20cbmX_vwisC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22oliver+hardy%22+%22wild+papa%22&pg=PT248&printsec=frontcover |title=Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy |date= |publisher=St. Martin's |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-4668-2722-6 |location=New York |language=}}</ref>

== Plot == This plot summary comes from ''The Moving Picture World'' for May 16, 1925:<ref>{{Cite journal |date=May 16, 1925 |title=The Pep of the Program: News and Reviews of Short Subjects and Serials: "Wild Papa": (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicwor74movi/page/n247/mode/2up?q=%22Brothers-in-law+as+business+partners%22 |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=317}}</ref> {{Blockquote|text=Brothers-in-law as business partners in a cloak and suit establishment with a ravishing model as go-between start off "Wild Papa," a Hal Roach comedy featuring the "Spat Family," with much hilarity. The comedy is just as "meaty" throughout with a great concoction of laugh punch at the end in the guise of a breach of promise suit. The married member of the firm scoffs at his partner's declaration that the beautiful model is in love with him. He proves otherwise when she enters the room. But she entwines her arms about his neck just as his wife appears on the scene. Much amusing slapstick stuff thereafter prevails. In the courtroom the plaintiff's version of the story is introduced on the screen. It shows her as an unsophisticated maiden romping about in the land of cows and grass. The defendant takes the stand and is about to tell the true story when he is instructed to read the defense concocted by his lawyer. In this he is pictured as the possessor of a lap dog and roller skates. The attorney releases a swarm of bees and the defendant is acquitted on the grounds of being "bughouse."}}

==Cast== * Frank Butler as Tewksbury Spat * Laura Roessing as Mrs. Tewksbury * Sidney D'Albrook as Ambrose * Katherine Grant as The model * George Rowe * Jules Mendel * Oliver Hardy as The model's brother (as Babe Hardy)

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0247049|title=Wild Papa}}

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:1925 comedy films Category:1925 short films Category:1925 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent comedy short films Category:1925 American films Category:1925 English-language films Category:English-language comedy short films