Only Me

1929
15m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

103

YOUR RATING

Short Comedy

A well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy ... Read allA well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy who is sitting in a box seat near the stage. Soon the inebriated man himself begins to cau... Read allA well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy who is sitting in a box seat near the stage. Soon the inebriated man himself begins to cause disruptions, with his overly emphatic opinions of the various acts.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

103

YOUR RATING

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Featured review

Pretty Entertaining For Recycled Material

Not much of the material in this short comedy is original, but given that most of it was recycled from other (and better) comics, it's pretty entertaining. Lupino Lane takes some ideas from Keaton's "The Playhouse" and Chaplin's "The Show", then adds a few gag ideas of his own, to create "Only Me".

If nothing else, it all fits together well, and it has a good assortment of slapstick material. Lane plays a great many different roles, and he does have his own style, with a persona rather different than either Chaplin or Keaton. It makes this movie more interesting than those features made by comics who more closely tried to imitate better-known talents, especially Chaplin.

Recycled or retread material is much more common now, with constant remakes or re-workings of older and better movies being churned out with little genuine effort or skill. Even movies with some original ideas are too often crammed full of labored references to other movies, not for any worthwhile purpose, but merely to show how clever the film-makers are.

Lane did not contribute a lot of his own ideas to this feature, but he did show that he appreciated the possibilities in the source material, and he performs it well. While "Only Me" is not especially original, it's entertaining, and this kind of feature is certainly more enjoyable than the slapped together rehashes or the formulaic money grabs of recent years.

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