Series: Toto
Director: Hal Roach
Producer: Hal Roach
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Stars: Armando Novello
Company: Pathé Exchange
Released: 23 June 1918
Length: 2 reels
Production No.: T-8
Filming dates: March 4 - April 4, 1918
Rating: 1/10
Cleopatsy
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From approximately 3mins 37seconds of footage available for viewing: A group of people travel across the desert, some on camels, some in cars. Mark Handy (ARMANDO NOVELLO) nudges Ventilatus (BUD JAMISON) with his wooden dagger to wake him up in the back of the car. We switch to Cleopatsy's palace where people dance in the background as a woman lies on a sofa in the foreground. The car arrives outside the palace, sending two soldiers into a fountain. Ventilatus stands up in the back of the car and remonstrates with a crowd that has gathered before Mark stabs the back of his leg with a cigar. Mark enters the palace and has some dialogue with Cleopatsy (DORA RODGERS). He then pulls some cheesy faces when she starts playing with him. Mark sends a messenger (GUS LEONARD) into the palace and he too gets seduced by the hostess. He sits down alongside Ventilatus and the driver who has suddenly appeared there. A ram causes havoc inside the palace and nudges one of the members into a pool. One of the servants then collects Mark and brings him over to Cleopatsy - which is where the footage abruptly ends. |
| Trivia • The sixfth film in the series to be released. • Also listed for June 15, 1918. • Approximately 3mins 37secs (after the removal of subtitles) of footage from the film was published on YouTube in 2026. • Bud Jamison is wearing a wristwatch, despite the story taking place in days of old. |
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Armando Novello Mark Handy |
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Dora Rodgers Cleopatsy |
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Bud Jamison Ventilatus (aka The Big Swede) |
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Lige Conley Soldier |
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William Peterson Soldier |
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Gus Leonard Messenger |
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Dee Lampton Driver |
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Max Hamburger Palace servant |
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James Fitzgerald Palace servant |
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| Acknowledgements: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cdmmi.s1229l12503/?pdfPage=1 (Library Of Congress document) James Fennell / Old Films and Stuff (YouTube channel for posting the footage) Thomas Gönitzer Dave Glass, Steve Rydzewski, Stan Taffel (making me aware of the footage) Jesse Brisson (identification of Lige Conley, William Peterson, James Fitzgerald) Lord Heath (identification of Dee Lampton, Gus Leonard, Max Hamburger) This page was last updated on: 14 May 2026 |