His Sudden Recovery is a lost 1914 American silent comedy film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company, featuring Oliver Hardy, Eloise Willard, Frances Ne Moyer, and Marguerite Ne Moyer.
[1][2] "Jones is a large, healthy man, but he reads a medical almanac and imagines he has every ailment in the book.
[2] It was a short split-reel comedy, lasting approximately 5–6 minutes, and sharing a single reel with a second, unrelated film, Who's Boss, starring Harry Lorraine, Mae Hotely, and Billy Bowers.
[2] His Sudden Recovery is one of several short Lubin comedies made in the spring and summer of 1914 that include the first screen appearances of Oliver Hardy.
Motion Picture News summarized the plot as "The Lubin fat boy [Hardy] recovers from his serious illness when his relatives proceed to loot the house" and pronounced it "a worthy comedy";[3] the New York Dramatic Mirror called it "a passable farce";[2] and Moving Picture World wrote that "the idea in this is quite amusing and it makes a very fair half-reel comedy".