Back to the Farm


Back to the Farm is a lost 1914 silent comedy short film that co-starred Oliver "Babe" Hardy and Herbert "Bert" Tracy. Written by Will Louis and produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, the short was filmed in Jacksonville, Florida. It was directed by Joseph Levering, likely in collaboration with the chief director on Lubin's production staff in Jacksonville, Arthur Hotaling.

Cast

In its review of the comedy after its release in August 1914, the New York-based trade journal Motion Picture News judged it to be very funny. The publication also described the disarming effect that the main characters' childish, dim-witted personalities had on some potentially objectionable or bawdy scenes: