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Fighting Fluid

  • 1925
  • 10m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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ComedyShort

Charley is a bashful clerk in love with the boss' daughter. Accidentally partaking of gin that has been dumped into an old water cooler to hide it, he becomes a scrapper, ready to lick every... Read allCharley is a bashful clerk in love with the boss' daughter. Accidentally partaking of gin that has been dumped into an old water cooler to hide it, he becomes a scrapper, ready to lick everyone in sight, and of course ends by getting the girl even though gasoline vapors have sobe... Read allCharley is a bashful clerk in love with the boss' daughter. Accidentally partaking of gin that has been dumped into an old water cooler to hide it, he becomes a scrapper, ready to lick everyone in sight, and of course ends by getting the girl even though gasoline vapors have sobered him and restored him to his bashful self.

  • Director
    • Leo McCarey
  • Stars
    • Charley Chase
    • Marie Mosquini
    • Pierre Couderc
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
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    • Director
      • Leo McCarey
    • Stars
      • Charley Chase
      • Marie Mosquini
      • Pierre Couderc
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    Charley Chase
    Charley Chase
    • Jimmy Jump
    Marie Mosquini
    Marie Mosquini
    • The Boss's Daughter
    Pierre Couderc
    Pierre Couderc
    • Joker…
    Ed Porter
    Ed Porter
    • The Boss
    Jules Mendel
    • Butler
    Clara Guiol
    Clara Guiol
    • Secretary
    • Director
      • Leo McCarey
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    I'll drink to this
    Back when prohibition was in effect in the 1920s and early 1930s, it was very common to see comedies use bootleg as a catalyst for comedy situations, and many use drunkenness as a way to generate laughs. See Laurel and Hardy's excellent short "Blotto." This isn't surprising, since seeing people do forbidden, alluring things and, often, make fools of themselves in the process, is always a mine for comedy.

    Here we see Charley Chase's take on that pervasive comedy trope of the time, through the unlikely circumstance that his boss stored his bootleg hooch in an office water cooler. Chase may not be spinning everything here out of his own imagination, but even as he uses the stock drunkenness plot from countless comedies of this era, it becomes thoroughly a Charley Chase comedy. The drunkenness is a way of moving Charley's character along in a comedy of character and situation.

    There is good office comedy in a beginning with Charley as a meek worker tormented by practical jokes from women he is afraid to talk to. After the drunk Charley does not just get a chance to show off a drunk act (which he does well) but also gains the courage to approach his secret love, developing plot and character, and opening more comedy possibilities that are distinctly Charley Chase. Even a gag involving confusing a mannequin of a woman's leg for the real thing, used so many times by Charley's fellow comedian Harry Langdon, is worked into the compact comedy of embarrassment.

    A very funny film, showing how handily Charley Chase could take a common stock idea and make it into something very much his own.
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    • Release date
      • February 1, 1925 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA(Studio)
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      • Hal Roach Studios
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    • Runtime
      10 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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