The Laugh on Dad

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 50 min
Premiere: 1918. March 2.

Director: A.C. Tinsdale
Writer: A.C. Tinsdale
Starring: Netta Lawson Johnson Weir May Morton Jules Olaff

The Laugh on Dad is a 1918 comedy Australian silent film. It follows John Forrest, a.k.a. Dad, who is an ostrich farmer. His daughter Jean wants to marry Ralph Bond but Dad is opposed, so he devises a scene where a farmhand will dress as Jean and pretend to marry Ralph. Jean outwits him and the marriage goes ahead. It is considered a lost film.