The Big Show
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A group of children put on an imitation circus in the backyard.A group of children put on an imitation circus in the backyard.A group of children put on an imitation circus in the backyard.
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Monkeying With the Formula
Although I usually strongly dislike these Chester animal comedies because of their animal cruelty, repetitive plots and pointless gags, this one is watchable, at least in the cutdown version reissued during the early sound era -- a sort of precursor to Hal Roach's OUR GANG series as he originally planned it, half about the small kids and half about the animals doing unlikely things. Roach split off the latter part into the Dippy Doodads and put cameraman Len Powers into the business of lining up the shots with directorial credit for a couple of years.
This one is the old 'the kids put on a show' routine, and Snooky acts as the stagehand -- he's got the overalls for it, I suppose. There are the usual hijinks, involving dogs and a skunk, and the same assortment of kid types and gags that Roach's series would use for a decade, but there's no real sense of charm or character among the group, The only value of this movie is to demonstrate how very good Roach's unit was. Anyway, as currently available, it's only one reel.
This one is the old 'the kids put on a show' routine, and Snooky acts as the stagehand -- he's got the overalls for it, I suppose. There are the usual hijinks, involving dogs and a skunk, and the same assortment of kid types and gags that Roach's series would use for a decade, but there's no real sense of charm or character among the group, The only value of this movie is to demonstrate how very good Roach's unit was. Anyway, as currently available, it's only one reel.
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- boblipton
- Apr 30, 2011
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