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  • Archie and the Bell Boy (1913)
  • Short | 8 min | Comedy, Short
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Archie and the Bell Boy (1913)
Short | 8 min | Comedy, Short
It is not altogether Archie's fault that he was a "mollycoddle." From earliest childhood they had carefully shielded Archie from contact with rude boys who did not keep their hands and faces clean. Archie was twelve, and they didn't allow ...See moreIt is not altogether Archie's fault that he was a "mollycoddle." From earliest childhood they had carefully shielded Archie from contact with rude boys who did not keep their hands and faces clean. Archie was twelve, and they didn't allow him to go out on the street without his nurse. One day, Archie left his nurse in the park and attempted to play ball with some boys. The boys didn't do a thing to Archie. They blackened his eye, punched his nose and finally, when the nurse rescued him, the entire crowd were sitting on Archie, pounding him with hands and feet. Archie, howling bitterly, was led back to the hotel in which his family lived. His pitiful case did not excite much sympathy from his only friend, Bobs, the bellboy. Bobs was considerably smaller than Archie, but he was a natural born "scrapper." Bobs promised to teach Archie how to fight. At every spare opportunity, they would slip off to the drummers' sample room, where Bobs would initiate Archie in the mysteries of undercut and uppercut. Bobs was hardly a scientific boxer, and he occasionally, in the heat of conflict, forgot that he was only a teacher, and "let into" Archie with all his might, all of which was a very good thing for Archie. His parents noticed the improvement in Archie and ascribed it to a tonic which had lately been prescribed for their darling by a fashionable physician. One day, Archie went out to the park, met the same boys, and thoroughly turned the tables on them. He returned to the hotel swaggering, carrying with him the ball he had captured from his foes. He informed his parents that he was done with nurses and that he intended to run away and become a pirate. Archie didn't become a pirate, but he did become a fine, manly boy, which is much better than being a mollycoddle. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
C.J. Williams
Writer
Alice Williams
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Updated Nov 5, 1913
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Nov 5, 1913 (United States)

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Andy Clark
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