The Sawmill

19221922
25m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

254

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

154,604

50,973

Directors
- Larry Semon
- Norman Taurog
Writers
- Larry Semon(story)
- Norman Taurog(story)
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This holds the record as the most expensive short silent comedy ever produced. The cast and crew (consisting of 75 grips and electrical technicians, caterers, costumers, riggers, prop men and prop makers, construction and paint technicians, payroll cashiers, secretaries and script clerks, special effects technicians, transportation captains and drivers, assistant directors and production assistants) lived in a specially built bunker town while filming the short on location.

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Edited into Stop! Look and Laugh (1951)

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5/10

Lots of slapstick at the lumber yard.

As nobody else has commented on it yet I might as well. Pretty run of the mill slapstick comedy of the time. Obviously from the title set at a sawmill. Larry Semon manages to get the girl in the end after a series of chases etc. Interesting to most people I would imagine for the appearance of Oliver Hardy as Semon's "competition". Perhaps rates 5/10.

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