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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "duel" (7)

Max Has Trouble With His Eyes (Le duel de monsieur Myope)

Louis J. Gasnier (director)
Max Linder (lead/writer)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in May 1910
Minutes: 5

Max's bad eyes lands him in a duel. Kind of a silent Mr. Magoo. But poor print, strangely lacking the closeups that have been in Linder's films from the beginning, leaves the viewer with trouble with the eyes.

Featured elements:

: comedy; duel; identity mix-up

Le due innamorate di Cretinetti

André Deed (lead)
Itala (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, released in May 1911
Minutes: 10

Cretinetti has fun fueling the flames of two females fighting for his affection. A showcase of comic pantomime.

Featured elements:

: comedy; duel

Max Takes Tonics (Victime du quinquina)

Max Linder (director/lead)
Maurice Delamare (lead/writer)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1911
Minutes: 17

AKA, “Why Top Hats Fell Out Of Favor”...Max visits a doctor who prescribes a tonic, but Max overdoses and goes about the day in a completely drunken state. A true masterpiece - funnier with every viewing.

Featured elements:

: bad cop; boozy-woozy; comedy; duel; farce; goofs; identity mix-up; infidelity; metakill science; neglected spouse; slapstick; smack attack; social commentary

Entente cordiale (L'entente cordiale)

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
Jane Renouardt (lead)
Harry Fragson (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, released in Sep 1912
Minutes: 17

Max and his good friend, who came to visit him in Paris, both fall in love with his new maid.

Featured elements:

: comedy; duel; fantasy; farce; Max-dance; pathos; romance

Crossed Love And Swords

Frank Griffin (director)
Louise Fazenda (lead)
Dave Morris (lead)
Al St. John (lead)
Harry Bernard (lead)
Helen Carlyle (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1915
Minutes: 17

The Keystone touch (hammer?) of broad comedy is applied to elements typical of European films of that time: high society, exotic dance, and the duel. While certainly not the best of Keystone, it's still fun to see Al St. John as a different character - and he dances! Plus, there's a cameo of an early ancestor of Godzilla...in the form of a mockodile that couldn't even frighten a feeble pooch.

Featured elements:

: animal act; comedy; dance; dance-orientale; duel; falsely accused; parody; rescue; servitude; slapstick

La signora delle camelie

Gustavo Serena (director/lead)
Alberto G. Carta (cinematographer)
Renzo Chiosso (writer)
Alexandre Dumas fils (author)
Ennio Morricone (music)
Francesca Bertini (lead)
Caesar (production)

Language: Silent, Italian titles, English subtitles, released in Oct 1915
Minutes: 53

Heartrending story of infantile infatuation and endless messaging among 19th century European bourgeois airheads. Viewers unfamiliar with the novel's story will likely be a bit puzzled by this concise film version, that carefully tiptoes around the central topic: the “scandal”. And nothing on the screen comes close to the intensity of Ennio Morricone's score, currently available om Youtube.

Featured elements:

: abuse; death scene; diva mode; duel; family; forbidden love; melodrama; prostitution; servitude

Max The Heartbreaker (Max Entre Deux Feux)

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in May 1917
Minutes: 19

Two girls crazy over Max. Begins as a romance (with some surprisingly nice cinematography) but, in the last 5 minutes, switches to comedy when Max learns the girls plan to kill each other over him! That sends Max into a wacky bliss, and he pulls a string of gags that look like they could have inspired Looney Tunes!

Featured elements:

: bookends; comedy; dark comedy; duel; emblematic shot; Max-dance; romance

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