Back to the Farm
# 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

* Babe Hardy (Oliver Hardy) as Tom
* Herbert Tracy as Bob
* Roy Byron as Mr. Cassett
* Eloise Willard as Auntie
* Mabel Paige as Mrs. Cassett

## Release and reception

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:

   The adventures of Tom and Bob would be risque if they were not such simpletons and so awfully innocent of guilt in the situations which they create when they come to town to visit their aunt and get in the wrong house. As it is, what happens to them is ludicrous and will cause inordinate laughter.
