All Wet (1924 film)

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All Wet
Directed byLeo McCarey
Produced byHal Roach
StarringCharley Chase
CinematographyLen Powers[1]
Production
company
Distributed byPathé Exchange[1]
Release date
  • November 23, 1924 (1924-11-23)[1]
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

All Wet is a 1924 American film starring Charley Chase and featuring William Gillespie, 'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil and Jack Gavin.[1] It also featured an uncredited appearance of the future star Janet Gaynor in one of her very first roles.[2]

Plot

Jimmie Jump is a boarder who receives an urgent telegram telling him to pick up a large shipment from the train station at exactly 2:30 p.m. the following Wednesday. On the appointed day, Jimmie has great difficulty getting to the station.

Cast

Production

All Wet was shot over the course of seven days at Hollenbeck Park, near downtown Los Angeles.[4]

Reception

In a contemporary review of the film, Thomas C. Kennedy wrote, "When it comes to comedy of the clean-cut, theatrically effective sort, there is no surer hand in the realm of short subject specialists than Charles Parrott."[5]

Legacy

The main gag of the car stuck in the watery ditch was remade by Chase in the 1933 talkie short Fallen Arches.[6] In his book, Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom, critic Leonard Maltin wrote that this "hilarious" scene triumphed over the remake partly because "the reality of a talking world couldn't accommodate bizarre or surreal sight gags".[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "All Wet". Silent Era. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  2. ^ Commire, Annie, ed. (2000). Women in World History. Gale virtual reference library. Vol. 6. Yorkin Publications. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-7876-4068-2. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  3. ^ Vogel, Michelle (2010). Olive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Joy Girl". McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7864-5836-3. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  4. ^ Billips, Connie J. (1992). Janet Gaynor: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-27574-6. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  5. ^ Ward, Richard Lewis (2016). When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8093-3497-1. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  6. ^ S.D., Trav (2013). Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies, From Nickelodeons to Youtube. BookBaby. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-62933-051-8. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  7. ^ Maltin, Leonard (2018). Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom. GoodKnight Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-7322735-0-4. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

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