The Cloud Puncher

The Cloud Puncher

Anyone who is familiar with the fun creating powers of hank Mann will make a pretty good guess at the mirth provoking elements that the title and the star would naturally suggest. Hank is making millions laugh with his serio-comic antics.

1917 · 18 min · ★ 8.0 · Comedy

It hasn't rained for week and there are no symptoms of coming rain to be found. An itinerant artist carrying a huge canvas rambles along a country road. He reaches the hut of a hermit inventor who is dying of thirst. The artist paints a picture of a reservoir so realistically that the water overflows and fills a cup which he holds in his hand.

Directed by Charley Chase · Written by Charley Chase

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Hank Mann The Artist
Carmen Phillips His Daughter
Lynn Staley The Hermit Inventor
John Lancaster The Town Squire
Joe Lee Al K. Hall
Mack Wills Henchman
Don White Henchman

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