Kid Boots is a 1926 American silent feature comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, and based on the 1923 musical written by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10066 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Kid Boots] This was entertainer Eddie Cantor's first film. A print is preserved at the Library of Congress.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KidBoots1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Kid Boots] at silentera.comThe American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30, The American Film Institute, c.1971Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artist Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1060/default.html The Library of congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Kid Boots]

Plot

Kid Boots is a put-upon clerk in a men's tailor shop. When Big Boyle storms in to buy a new suit, the service he receives is so inept that he destroys the shop trying to throttle Boots.

Boots flees for his life, stopping only to make Clara McCoy's acquaintance. Attempting to hide in a hotel, Boots becomes an accidental witness to the infidelity of a rich man's wife. The rich man, Tom Sterling, has a $100,000.00 settlement suit at stake. So he keeps Boots close to him as a character witness.

Boots and his new friend lie low at a posh golf resort, and all is well until it is discovered Clara McCoy and the bullying Big Boyle also work there. Big Boyle eventually subjects Boots to a brutal massage and electroshock treatments. Boots escapes only when the bully laughs so hard he accidentally sits in his own electric chair.

Boots oversleeps the day of the important divorce hearing. The only way to reach the courthouse on time is on horseback. McCoy follows Boots, and the jealous Big Boyle follows her. This results in a hair-raising stunt chase where the characters take turn dangling from precipices and swaying on teeter-totters.

Boots ends up parachuting onto the courthouse roof, arriving just in time to deliver his vital testimony.

Cast

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Eddie Cantor as Samuel (Kid) Boots
Clara Bow as Clara McCoy
Billie Dove as Eleanor Belmore
Lawrence Gray as Tom Sterling
Natalie Kingston as Carmen Mendoza
Malcolm Waite as Big Boyle
William Worthington as Eleanor's Father
Harry von Meter as Eleanor's Lawyer
Fred Esmelton as Tom's Lawyer
Aud Cruster (uncredited)
William Orlamond as Tailor (uncredited)
Rolfe Sedan as Physical Therapist (uncredited)

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References

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Category:1926 films

Category:1926 romantic comedy films

Category:1920s American films

Category:1920s English-language films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:American romantic comedy films

Category:American silent feature films

Category:Famous Players-Lasky films

Category:Films directed by Frank Tuttle

Category:Films with screenplays by Tom Gibson

Category:Silent American romantic comedy films

Category:Surviving American silent films