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The Show Busters
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: (unknown)

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 23 July 1914; in a split-reel with The Cheeseville Cops (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Piocture World]? Barnstorming at best is not a cinch, but that it has its opportunities is not to be denied, and the troupe engaged by the Hicksville Board of Trade to play a thrilling drama for the benefit of the Local Home for Toothless Tobacco Chewers gets its chance. “Nuf” said.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 April 2020.

References: Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.