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- GoofsOne of the sight gags in this film was achieved with a simple camera trick: a seemingly impossible number of cops pile into a police car, one after another. The trick was accomplished by stopping the camera, having the actors get out of the car, and then climb in again as the filming resumes. But the trick is accidentally revealed by an unexpected visitor: at the lower left of the image a spotted cat ambles up the sidewalk, then stops to watch. A moment later, when the camera cuts from one take to the next, the cat vanishes.
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Only the second reel of this 1918 Jester comedy is known to survive. The first half, in which it is established that Marcel Perez (known as "Twede-Dan" here as opposed to his other numerous screen aliases,including "Tweedie, Tweedledum", "Bungles", "Robinet" and, I suspect, Julia Swayne Gordon) is a private eye who has decided that Nilda Baracchi is a German spy. He follows her hither and yon and the gags are mostly about his ability to disguise himself as a railroad porter, an armchair or a pile of discarded newspapers at a moment's notice.
Perez' gag construction was topnotch. In this one he had successfully melded his repertoire of gags from his Italian movies with an American style of storytelling. Credit director Wiliam Seiter, near the start of his half-century directorial career, but already a tried veteran.
Anyway, keep your eyes ope for the first reel. If the second is any indication, it's a lot of fun. And if you want to check it out for yourself, get yourself a copy of THE MARCEL PEREZ COLLECTION.
Perez' gag construction was topnotch. In this one he had successfully melded his repertoire of gags from his Italian movies with an American style of storytelling. Credit director Wiliam Seiter, near the start of his half-century directorial career, but already a tried veteran.
Anyway, keep your eyes ope for the first reel. If the second is any indication, it's a lot of fun. And if you want to check it out for yourself, get yourself a copy of THE MARCEL PEREZ COLLECTION.
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- Apr 21, 2015
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