The Big Shot

1929
22m

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Marvin Loback and 'Snub' Pollard in The Big Shot (1929)

Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.

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- James D. Davis
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5.2/10

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Director
- James D. Davis
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'Snub' Pollard and Harry Martell in The Big Shot (1929)

Trivia
On 7 May 1929, 15 short comedies, this title among them, were announced by Artclass for 1929 release. This article appeared in the 11 May 1929 edition of Exhibitors Herald-World. No specific dates for the individual titles have yet been determined.

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Title Card: This is a great country. You can do as you please--if you don't mind going to jail.

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4/10

Middling Late Silent Short -- Lots of Gags, Most Not Funny

Snub Pollard and another heavy comic are reporters with an assignment to photograph a reclusive Scotsman. Snub dresses in a kilt (which blows up in the wind, a la Marilyn Monroe) and works with a camera with many peculiar moving parts. Nevertheless, they don't get the shot.

This is a pretty so so picture -- many, many many jokes. But the only ones that manage to be funny are the ones that are totally off color (the kilt jokes, and this oddly phallic picture lens). The pratfalls and other stuff is nothing more than a time passer. This, I suspect is a pretty good example of silent comedy not made by Lloyd, Chaplin, Keaton, Mack Sennett, or Hal Roach. It's just not terribly distinctive.

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