''Kid Boots'' is a 1926 American silent feature

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directed by

Frank Tuttle Frank Wright Tuttle (August 6, 1892 – January 6, 1963) was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 (''The Cradle Buster'') to 1959 ('' Island of Lost Women''). Biography Frank Tuttle was educated at Yale Universi ...

, and based on the 1923 musical written by

William Anthony McGuire William Anthony McGuire (July 9, 1881 – September 16, 1940) was an American playwright, theatre director, and producer and screenwriter, including ''The Kid From Spain'' (1932) starring Eddie Cantor. McGuire earned an Oscar nomination for the ...

and

Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Harbach collaborated as lyricist or librettist with many of the leading B ...

. This was entertainer

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's first film. A print is preserved at the

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Plot

Kid Boots is a put-upon clerk in a men's tailor shop. When Malcolm Waite storms in to buy a new suit, the service he receive is so inept that he destroys the shop trying to throttle Boots. Boots flees for his life, stopping only to make Bow'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 lay 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.

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* * * * * * 1926 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Frank Tuttle Famous Players-Lasky films 1926 romantic comedy films American romantic comedy films Films with screenplays by Tom Gibson 1920s English-language films 1920s American films Silent romantic comedy films Silent American comedy films {{1920s-romantic-comedy-film-stub

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