Home Cured | |
Director: | William Goodrich (Roscoe Arbuckle) |
Starring: | Johnny Arthur |
Studio: | Goodwill Productions (as Tuxedo Comedies) |
Distributor: | Educational Film Exchanges |
Runtime: | 11 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
Home Cured is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle.[1] Although Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe, he could not obtain work in Hollywood under his own name, so he adopted the pseudonym William Goodrich for directing the comedy shorts he made under his contract with Educational Film Exchanges.[2]
As described in a film magazine review,[3] a man who is always buying medicine for his imaginary ailments is put through a cure by his wife and his friend. He pretends he really is ill. Doctors, undertakers, and the sexton arrive and the wife and friend plan how they will spend his insurance money. The husband realizes they are trying to get rid of him. He chases his friend from the house, promising his wife he will not be sick again.