Love, Loot and Crash (1915)A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone cops and stir vigorously. Director:Frank Griffin |
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Love, Loot and Crash (1915)A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone cops and stir vigorously. Director:Frank Griffin |
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Harold, Dora's Suitor
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Fontaine La Rue | ... |
Mary, The Banker's Daughter
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Josef Swickard | ... |
Mary's Father, a Banker
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William Hauber | ... |
Male Crook
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Fritz Schade | ... |
Plump Female Crook
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A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone cops and stir vigorously.
Just watched this Mack Sennett Keystone silent comedy short on the Internet Archive. It would probably not be worth noting today except it has a couple of performers who would become famous later on: Charley Chase and Harold Lloyd. Chase plays a suitor of a woman whose father doesn't approve of him. Lloyd plays a fruit vendor whose cart keeps getting knocked off by cars passing by. Neither is recognizable since Chase doesn't have his mustache nor Lloyd have his glasses yet. The funniest person here is one Fritz Schade who plays a heavyset crook who disguises himself in drag as a cook for aforementioned woman and her father. Otherwise, it's mainly car chase scenes with added sequence of people falling down piers. Pretty funny even today if not completely hilarious. Still, if you're curious about two iconic comics in their early roles, Love, Loot, and Crash is worth a look for silent movie buffs.