title: The Messenger (1918 film)
text: # The Messenger (1918 film)
  
  The Messenger is a 1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Billy West as Billy, the messenger boy
  * Oliver Hardy (credited as Babe Hardy)
  * Ethel Marie Burton
  * Leatrice Joy
  * Leo White
  * Joe Bordeaux
  
  ## Reception
  
  Like many American films of the time, The Messenger was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, four scenes of Billy looking at young woman with skirt raised exposing posterior and scene of Billy dropping trousers and standing in underwear.
  
  