A dentist proceeds to get patients for his girl's father by causing people to fall using banana skins..
Alfred J. Goulding
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Imagine a world where Hippocrates meets Harpo, where the Hippocratic oath dissolves into a custard pie, and you have Alfred J. Goulding’s The Nervy Dentist. Clocking in at a brisk two reels, this 1923 one-reeler-turned-featurette pirouettes on the thin membrane separating medical ethics from anarchic vaudeville. Char...
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Alfred J. Goulding
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" Imagine a world where Hippocrates meets Harpo, where the Hippocratic oath dissolves into a custard pie, and you have Alfred J. Goulding’s The Nervy Dentist. Clocking in at a brisk two reels, this 1923 one-reeler-turned-featurette pirouettes on the thin membrane separating medical ethics from anarchic vaudeville. Charles Dorety, rubber-limbed and possessed of the darting eyes of a card-shark, plays the eponymous oral surgeon who moonlights as a match-maker between supply and demand—supply being..."
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