Mr. Bolter's Infatuation (1912) User Reviews

Do You Remember Sweet Nina, Ben Bolter?

[boblipton · 7/10 · 5 July 2016]

John Bunny imagines himself a rake and tries to date Lillian Walker. She laughs and sends him a note that she will meet him at "Le Hotel des Imbeciles" in New York and he spends his time trying to locate it.

John Bunny was fast becoming the most popular comic actor in America at this point. While most of his vehicles had him as the wise, almost cynical older man, this example of his being the butt of the comic short subject is typically well performed. In addition, there are also some nice shots of Pre-War New York City.

If you wish to take a look at this movie, you can find a good copy of it at the Eye Institute site on Youtube, along with many other rare examples of shorts from the era.

Bunny is the ace of trumps

[deickemeyer · 18 October 2016]

John Bunny plays "Bolter," a man who came to the city from a country town because a dancing girl (Miss Walker) told him, in fun, that she'd meet him there at the Hotel des Imbeciles. He lands in a police station and has to telegraph to his old friend (Mr. Eldridge) to come to town and get him out. Many people seem to think that Mr. Bunny is amusing chiefly because he is fat. It is because so many of his comedy pictures don't give him so good a chance to act as this does. In it he plays nearly the whole gamut of comedy emotions with the sincere earnestness that makes it a masterpiece. Mr. Eldridge (Bolter's grandfatherly chum), adds a good deal to it also; so does Miss Walker with her sprightliness; but Bunny is the ace of trumps. He gives us jolly laughter when he's sunny, and he makes us smile with sorrow when he's sad; but John Bunny's far more funny when he's found he's lost his money, and he's forty times more funny when he's mad. - The Moving Picture World, April 6, 1912