Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuHarry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
Fotos
Anna Dodge
- Harry's Mother
- (Nicht genannt)
Billy Gilbert
- Bystander
- (Nicht genannt)
Jack Murphy
- Bystander
- (Nicht genannt)
Leo Sulky
- Pawnbroker
- (Nicht genannt)
Tiny Ward
- Piano Owner
- (Nicht genannt)
Handlung
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Title Card: The Hogans were men of metal - Bronze muscles - Iron wills and - Tin heads.
Ausgewählte Rezension
Not one sour note
This Harry Langdon short subject is one of those pieces that are almost equal parts hilarious and sad, but is one hundred per cent wonderfully done and entrancing all the way through. The whole film is also a great and effective encapsulation of Harry's character and place in the world -- he lives in the real universe where families throw out their children and everyone needs money, which is difficult to get, but he is the trusting little person who believes that he can be a musician no matter how badly he plays, and that a diploma makes him a Real Musician, who kisses his mother and tries to shake his father's hand when they throw him out, who can buy, sell, and lose his own property without even knowing it. We can laugh at his naive confusion and still really feel for him when he loses his musician certificate.
Harry's cheap room, the run-down streets, and the supporting players are all starkly and sadly realistic, and that just increases and incongruity and humor of Harry's very realistic. It's kind of existential in its solitude of the world against the man, and also extremely funny at the same time. Harry is as good as ever here, managing to make it as funny as it is almost solely through he reactions and pantomime in the uncomfortable situations. Vernon Dent shows his versatility here, playing two characters who seem totally different. The out-and-out gags that there are part of perfectly logical-absurd sequences: I won't spoil my favorite, which involves Harry in a large cage on the street.
This short reminds me of the later Laurel and Hardy film "Below Zero" in which they are also poor street musicians. Perhaps it was an inspiration as the Laurel and Hardy short, while demonstrating their usual brilliant humor, also has a more desolate, sad feel than most of their output. The titles in "Fiddlesticks" deserve commendation too; there's a funny joke in almost all of them.
I agree with the previous comment that this short, which is pretty distilled Harry Langdon, is a good litmus test of whether a viewer will like him. I do, so I loved "Fiddlesticks."
Harry's cheap room, the run-down streets, and the supporting players are all starkly and sadly realistic, and that just increases and incongruity and humor of Harry's very realistic. It's kind of existential in its solitude of the world against the man, and also extremely funny at the same time. Harry is as good as ever here, managing to make it as funny as it is almost solely through he reactions and pantomime in the uncomfortable situations. Vernon Dent shows his versatility here, playing two characters who seem totally different. The out-and-out gags that there are part of perfectly logical-absurd sequences: I won't spoil my favorite, which involves Harry in a large cage on the street.
This short reminds me of the later Laurel and Hardy film "Below Zero" in which they are also poor street musicians. Perhaps it was an inspiration as the Laurel and Hardy short, while demonstrating their usual brilliant humor, also has a more desolate, sad feel than most of their output. The titles in "Fiddlesticks" deserve commendation too; there's a funny joke in almost all of them.
I agree with the previous comment that this short, which is pretty distilled Harry Langdon, is a good litmus test of whether a viewer will like him. I do, so I loved "Fiddlesticks."
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- hte-trasme
- 17. Sept. 2009
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Details
- Laufzeit20 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
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