''Curses!'' is a 1925 American silent

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked ...

as William Goodrich and Grover Jones. Although Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe, he could not obtain work in Hollywood under his own name, so he adopted the

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William Goodrich for directing the comedy shorts he made under his contract with

Educational Film Exchanges Educational Pictures, also known as Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. or Educational Films Corporation of America, was an American film production and film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882–1962). Educational pr ...

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* Al St. John as Buttonshoe Bill * Bartine Burkett as Nell

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* 1925 films Films directed by Roscoe Arbuckle Films directed by Grover Jones 1925 comedy films American silent short films American black-and-white films 1925 short films Silent American comedy films American comedy short films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films {{short-silent-comedy-film-stub

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