Andre Deed in one of his early appearances as Boireau in this crude slapstick played at a breakneck pace. It probably amused filmgoers in the early days of cinema, but there's little of comic value to be found in the fragment that survives today.
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We Need Someone to Fall Into Holes
boblipton27 October 2018
It's André Deed in his first year of playing Boireau. His mother brings him to an architect's office, and he gets the job.... it appears to be that of dogsbody, a gopher. In the process of going for this and that, he continually bumps into things, drops things, falls into things, and so forth.
It's early days for slapstick, and that's what it consisted of in this stage of the cinema: people chasing endlessly after runaway objects (be they brides, grooms, horses or wheels of cheese) and inept young men who fall into gaping holes, then arise to fall into others. that's what Deed does here as Boireau, just as he would as Cretinetti for the next eight years.
It's early days for slapstick, and that's what it consisted of in this stage of the cinema: people chasing endlessly after runaway objects (be they brides, grooms, horses or wheels of cheese) and inept young men who fall into gaping holes, then arise to fall into others. that's what Deed does here as Boireau, just as he would as Cretinetti for the next eight years.
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