A Bathtub Bandit (1917) Poster

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It's A Ham & Bud Short, So No One Knows What To Do With A Bath Tub
boblipton12 July 2020
Robert Bradbury has a mania for stealing bath tubs, so he hires Ham & Bud to move it. They all wind up at a waterfront bar, where Bradbury is more interested in the bath tub than in Ethel Teare.

In this period, Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan made up a scuzzy Mutt & Jeff team, two psychopaths who wandered into dirty circumstances, engaged in random violence, and left. Apparently they hated each other almost as much as I hate them together. After they parted, Hamilton developed into one of the most accomplished short-form comics of the 1920s and drank himself to death in the 1930s. Duncan continued working for another thirty years for no clear reason.

Apparently Bradbury was so disheartened by appearing in this short that he became a director, boosting his son, Bob Steele into a major B western star in the 1930%.
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3/10
Stealing bathtubs? Huh?!
planktonrules17 May 2021
The premise to "A Bathtub Bandit" isn't very good nor does it make sense...even for a comedy. To make matters worse, it's not a particularly good film either.

Ham and Bud (Lloyd Hamilton and Bud Duncan) are tricked into helping the Bathtub Bandit steal yet another bathtub. Now you might be wondering...why would anyone want to steal bathtubs...and I wondered the same! Later, the pair realize the guy was a crook and they set out to catch him. This includes a lot of mindless slapstick...with wild shooting, chases and violence...instead of plot or story.

The story makes no sense, there are very few laughs....so it's not exactly a film I would recommend. Perhaps you'll enjoy it...I didn't.
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