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Where are the laughs??
"The Paperhangers' Revenge" is an old comedy that has one problem, a serious one....it's not funny. Too often, instead of real laughs, the film resorts to cheap slapstick (such as the maid, inexplicably, starts hitting the butler with the rolling pin as well as the scene where the wallpaperer hits the butler in the face with a brush for no reason). Now slapstick was pretty common back in 1918 but these sorts of tales do not hold up well today....mostly because the violence was there just because it provided cheap laughs. In other words, when the actors or directors didn't know what to do, they'd start hitting each other or firing guns at each other. Funny? No....nor is the rest of this film.
The story finds two guys (for more on this, see Boblipton's excellent review) out of work at the same time a group of wallpaper hangers go out on strike. The pair know nothing about wallpapering and proceed to make a mess of things...until the wallpaperers show up and kick their butts.
See it if you want. I just cannot recommend it to anyone unless they have a very high tolerance for this sort of thing.
The story finds two guys (for more on this, see Boblipton's excellent review) out of work at the same time a group of wallpaper hangers go out on strike. The pair know nothing about wallpapering and proceed to make a mess of things...until the wallpaperers show up and kick their butts.
See it if you want. I just cannot recommend it to anyone unless they have a very high tolerance for this sort of thing.
- planktonrules
- Aug 4, 2018
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