The daughter of the blacksmith elopes with the blacksmith's helper, and in the barber shop which she has inherited, a series of amusing incidents happen through the incompetence of the barber..
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The first time I watched The Blacksmith I expected a quaint curio, the cinematic equivalent of a rusty horseshoe. Ninety minutes later I was gasping like a fish on the docks, ribs aching from guffaws I didn’t know my body could produce without sound. This 1922 one-reel firecracker, long buried in mildewed archives, d...

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Fred Windemere

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" The first time I watched The Blacksmith I expected a quaint curio, the cinematic equivalent of a rusty horseshoe. Ninety minutes later I was gasping like a fish on the docks, ribs aching from guffaws I didn’t know my body could produce without sound. This 1922 one-reel firecracker, long buried in mildewed archives, detonates every stale myth that silent comedy is all pie-throw and pratfall. It is a gleeful manifesto about running away from fathers, from labor, from linear storytelling itself. ..."


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