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European Rest Cure (1904)An American tourist has a terrible ordeal on his European vacation. Director:Edwin S. Porter |
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Title: European Rest Cure (1904)
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An American going to Europe for a rest cure says good-bye to his family, then boards a ship that heads out to sea, where it runs into some rough weather. When they reach Ireland, the man has a mishap, and then in Paris he gets involved in a fracas. As he continues on to his other stops, things continue to get even less restful. Written by Snow Leopard
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This is quite an ambitious film from Edison directed by Edwin S. Porter. With a running time of just under twenty minutes it's longer than Porter's groundbreaking The Great Train Robbery from the previous year, although its episodic structure suggests it may have been sold and screened in shorter versions. Some of the material - such as the panoramic view of New York and the storm scene look as though they may be earlier actualities inserted into the film to pad out the running time.
The story is fairly simple, following the mishaps of a wealthy American tourist as he explores Europe - with an unexpected diversion to Africa between sojourns in Italy and Germany to visit the pyramids of Egypt. It's fairly amusing for the period, but most of the scenes run far too long.