Starvation Blues
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Starvation Blues
| image = File:Starvation Blues poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = Richard Wallace
| producer = Hal Roach
| writer = Stan Laurel
Sherbourne Shields
Frank Terry
H.M. Walker
Richard Wallace
| starring =
| music =
| cinematography = Len Powers
| editing = Richard C. Currier
| distributor = Pathé Exchange
| released = {{Film date|1925|12|13}}{{cite book|title=A History of the Hal Roach Studios|author=Richard Lewis Ward|year=2006|isbn=0809327279|page=180|publisher=SIU Press }}
| runtime =
| country = United States
| language =
| budget =
}}
File:Starvation Blues (1925).webm
Starvation Blues is a 1925 silent short subject comedy film. It stars Syd Crossley and Clyde Cook as street musicians struggling to eke out a living in the cold. Stan Laurel, one of the writers for the picture, would go on to explore a similar premise in his 1930 film Below Zero with Oliver Hardy.{{cite book |last=Okuda |first=Ted |title=Stan Without Ollie: The Stan Laurel Solo Films, 1917-1927 |date=2012-07-17 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0786447817 |language=en}}
Cast
- Clyde Cook as 1st Street Musician
- Syd Crossley as 2nd Street Musician
- Mildred June as Cafe Owner's Daughter
- Cesare Gravina as Cafe Owner
- Frederick Kovert as Dancer (as Frederick Kovert)
- Fred Kelsey as Prohibition Officer
- Tiny Sandford as Policeman
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|id=0274895|title=Starvation Blues}}
Category:Hal Roach Studios short films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Richard Wallace
Category:Silent American comedy short films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language comedy short films
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