His Taking Ways

1926
18m

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Charles King and his wife are worried about a rash of burglaries in their neighborhood, but a homemade alarm is useless when Al St.John the burglar comes around. Smashing through the house, ... Read allCharles King and his wife are worried about a rash of burglaries in their neighborhood, but a homemade alarm is useless when Al St.John the burglar comes around. Smashing through the house, he's confronted by King, who lets him go if he'll include a terrible coat his wife made in... Read allCharles King and his wife are worried about a rash of burglaries in their neighborhood, but a homemade alarm is useless when Al St.John the burglar comes around. Smashing through the house, he's confronted by King, who lets him go if he'll include a terrible coat his wife made in his loot bag. When he realizes the coat may be valuable, he chases Al around Culver City ... Read all

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5/10

Deaf in Silent Comedy

When timid Charles King and wife Lucille Hutton read in the newspaper that there has been a 300% increase in burglaries, they install a burglar alarm. However, that is no bar to burglar Al St. John, who does not hear it -- he's deaf.

This silent two-reeler, which has just been posted to the National Film Preservation website is a mediocre effort. Mr. King looks like Charley Chase playing a timid character. While Al is fairly good as he stoically goes about breaking and entering, his combination of clumsiness, deftness and pulling out an enormous ear trumpet soon palls. There are too few gags to fill up the eighteen minutes that this film takes. It looks like the uncredited director and writers -- directing is attributed to either St. John or Grover Jones -- came up with a good idea and then did little with it.

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