April Fool

Name: April Fool
Genre: Short, Comedy
Released: 1911-12-11
Cast: Fred Walton

1911

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The Hall Room Boys, who have lost all their money at the races, see an ad in the paper offering a large sum of money for the best April Fool joke perpetrated upon the unsuspecting citizens. ... Read allThe Hall Room Boys, who have lost all their money at the races, see an ad in the paper offering a large sum of money for the best April Fool joke perpetrated upon the unsuspecting citizens. They think of an original idea and after many funny experiences win the reward.The Hall Room Boys, who have lost all their money at the races, see an ad in the paper offering a large sum of money for the best April Fool joke perpetrated upon the unsuspecting citizens. They think of an original idea and after many funny experiences win the reward.

Director
- Fred Walton
Star
- Fred Walton

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YOUR RATING

Director
- Fred Walton
Star
- Fred Walton

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Trivia
Released as a split reel along with the western The Chief's Daughter (1911).

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The audience is completely "taken in"

From the opening of this picture, one expects a more or less flat ending, but the audience is completely "taken in" and finds itself most surprisingly fooled. The very flatness of the opening scenes, after the two hall room boys see the offer, made by a paper, of $200 for the best April Fool joke, was necessary and gives to the end an astonishing punch that puts the picture over in fine shape. The boys dress up as women, but no one is likely to recognize them. The men who follow them into the editorial office and the editor whom they ask for protection, doesn't picture amazement when they take off their wigs any more truly than do the spectators. - The Moving Picture World, December 23, 1911