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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "smack attack" (4)

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; farce; goofs; identity mix-up; infidelity; metakill science; neglected spouse; slapstick; smack attack; social commentary

Max In Monaco (Max à Monaco)

Max Linder (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in Jul 1914
Minutes: 13

No story - just funny Max-drunk-again gags, this time on a boat.

Featured elements:

: boozy-woozy; comedy; smack attack

The Floorwalker

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
William C. Foster (cinematographer)
Roland Totheroh (cinematographer)
Vincent Bryan (writer)
Maverick Terrell (writer)
Eric Campbell (lead)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Lloyd Bacon (lead)
Albert Austin (lead)
Charlotte Mineau (lead)
Leo White (lead)
James T. Kelley (lead)
Mutual (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1916
Minutes: 28

Trying to avoid capture by a store detective, The Tramp switches identities with a floorwalker - unaware he is a double-crossing embezzler on the lam.