''Lonesome Luke's Wild Women'' is a 1917 American short

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starring

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. A print of the film exists in a collection.

Cast

as Lonesome Luke *

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* W.L. Adams * David Voorhees * Charles Stevenson - (as Charles E. Stevenson) * Billy Fay * Sandy Roth *

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- (as Margaret Joslin Todd) *

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* Max Hamburger *

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Production

''Lonesome Luke's Wild Women'' was filmed on Deadman's Island off

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, which was later removed in 1928 as part of a harbor development effort.

Reception

Like many American films of the time, ''Lonesome Luke's Wild Women'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut in the first vision scene of the

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girls in transparent trousers.

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* 1917 films 1917 short films 1917 comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Hal Roach Silent American comedy short films Lonesome Luke films 1910s American films {{1910s-short-comedy-film-stub

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