
The Cloud Puncher
Comedy
Overview
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.
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Hank Mann
Hank Mann
The Artist
Hank Mann
The Artist


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