Dreamy Knights

Dreamy Knights
Directed byWill Louis
Produced byLouis Burstein
StarringOliver Hardy
Release date
  • August 10, 1916 (1916-08-10)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Dreamy Knights is a 1916 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.[1]

Plot

This plot summary was published in The Moving Picture World for August 26, 1916:[2]

An amusing burlesque of Cervante's (sic) immortal "Don Quixote" is the theme of this one-reel picture, Babe Hardy, Billy Ruge and Ray Podfrey heading the cast. Plump and Runt are discovered fishing from a boat. They go to sleep and dream they are the heroes of a great adventure. Although still in the present century, they imagine that they are a pair of bold knights whose mission is to rescue beauty in distress and defeat villainy at every turn. A captured maiden is freed by them, and a pirate stronghold overthrown. Their gallant steeds are an undersized donkey and an underfed goat. Plump and Runt make a ludicrous pair of swashbucklers, until awakened from their pleasant dreams by the upsetting of the boat.

Cast

  • Oliver Hardy as Plump (as Babe Hardy)
  • Billy Ruge as Runt
  • Ray Godfrey as Maiden in distress
  • Bert Tracy

See also

References

  1. ^ Miller, Blair (2013). Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7618-5994-9.
  2. ^ Exclusively by Our Own Staff (August 26, 1916). "Comments on the Films: General Film Company: DREAMY KNIGHTS (Vim), Aug. 10". The Moving Picture World. 29 (9): 1417 – via The Internet Archive.