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The Hobo

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221:. The hobo goes to inspect his own new car but thinks it is the roadster and gets in. He picks up Dolly. Harold reports his car stolen. The hobo returns to the ticket office where the well dressed man is trying to get into the safe. The man hides. The hobo gets into the safe and takes out fuel for the stove, then shuts the safe and leaves. He drives off with Dolly. 231:
The hobo and Dolly go to a restaurant. The police spot the stolen roadster outside the restaurant and go in. The well-dressed man spots the roadster and tries to steal it. Everyone comes out of the restaurant and he is arrested. The police chief gives the hobo a large pile of money (even though it is
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we jump to the police headquarters where a car has been reported stolen with a $ 50 reward. A well-dressed man goes into the station with his wife and offers the hobo his auto in exchange for two train tickets. He gives them a string of tickets and they go to the waiting area. But he misses the last
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Harold returns to the diner and starts fighting with the cook. The cook goes to the hatch. The cook takes over in the ticket office and the hobo puts on an apron and goes to the diner. A train comes in and a dozen men and women arrive together each looking to eat quickly. The hobo starts making
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pancakes. He accidentally puts hot pepper on the pancakes, but gives them to Harold who swallows them in one bite before his throat starts to burn. A food fight begins but the train whistle goes and all except Harold and the hobo leave.
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Harold's car retrieved). Harold has to drive Dolly and the hobo home. Dolly apologizes to Harold. The hobo puts all the new-found cash in her hand. He leaves them and gets on the train to his next destination.
189:. He spots the hobo trying to kiss Dolly, who is his girlfriend. He throws the cake but misses the hobo. It goes through the hatch and hits Mr Fox in the face. Everyone ends up fighting in the office. 34: 192:
Mr Fox leaves with his daughter and leaves the hobo in charge. Harold sticks his head through the hatch and the hobo closes it, trapping his head. He then starts to paint his face.
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The hobo knocks on the hatch and the girl appears. He hooks her neck with his walking stick and pulls her head through the hole.
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The hobo tries to work out the price of the tickets. He gives the mother a watermelon and the family sit outside and eat it.
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and he follows her to the ticket office of the station to return it. She goes into the office and surprises her father.
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hides on a platform under a railway freight car. He sits by the track and has a picnic as an astonished
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The hobo spies some pies and vaults a fence. A dog chases him and he bumps into Dolly. She drops her
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At police HQ we are told that the first stolen car belonged to the police chief. He flags down a
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Back in the diner Harold has finished the pancakes and starts work on eating a whole
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Harold sits in a diner eating a huge stack of pancakes.
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Index

Arvid E. Gillstrom
Billy West
Oliver Hardy
silent
comedy film
Billy West
Oliver Hardy
hobo
brakeman
handkerchief
sponge cake
black-face
Bud Ross
roadster
charabanc
Billy West
Oliver Hardy
Leo White
Bud Ross
city and state film censorship boards
cuspidor
List of American films of 1917
Oliver Hardy filmography
"Progressive Silent Film List: The Hobo"
"Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors"
The Hobo
IMDb
Categories
1917 films
1917 comedy films

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