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Puffy Buys Shoes
Puffy Buys Shoes

Puffy Buys Shoes

Genres

Comedy

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Out of the three-part burlesque, the only surviving one is the one called Pufi would buy a pair of shoes, with Hungarian inserts. The film is shot on a real-life location, in a Budapest shoe shop, and it portrays the mutual efforts of a puny sales assistant and Pufi, the bladder-of-lard customer, to find him a suitable pair of shoes. The content of the other two parts is not known.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Hungarian

Runtime

6 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

01 January 1914

Country

Hungary

Cast

Károly Huszár

Károly Huszár

Pufi

Gyula Kabos

Gyula Kabos

Segéd

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