KING OF THE CIRCUS (Der Zirkuskoenig) Max Linder
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:56 am
by Richard M Roberts
Here it is, Max Linder's last film, produced and released by Vita-Film (not the film cleaner) in France January 12, 1925, directed by Edouard Emile Violet, featuring Max with Vilma Banky, Eugen Burg, Gyula Szoreghy, Ernst Gunther, Victor Franz, and apparently a 12 year old Kurt Kaznar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWOl8qiDH4RICHARD M ROBERTS
Re: KING OF THE CIRCUS (Der Zirkuskoenig) Max Linder
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:00 am
by Ed Watz
Thanks so much, Richard - this is surely a Holy Grail for Max Linder fans, and as his final film it's nothing to be ashamed of. After the fascinating but bizarre AU SECOURS!, it's good to see Max characteristically again as a playboy, escaping from Papa for a night on the town. His breezy style and comic timing is undiminished, what a shame he and his wife would end their lives later that same year.
Re: KING OF THE CIRCUS (Der Zirkuskoenig) Max Linder
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:52 pm
by Joe Moore
Now if someone would only post The Little Cafe (1919).
Re: KING OF THE CIRCUS (Der Zirkuskoenig) Max Linder
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:21 pm
by Ed Watz
Joe Moore wrote:Now if someone would only post The Little Cafe (1919).
Enrique Bouchard used to sell THE LITTLE CAFE in 16mm. A friend of mine bought a print but he told me that the image was so dark that you had to exert yourself just to try and follow the action. Incidentally, the sound remake of THE LITTLE CAFE, PLAYBOY OF PARIS (1930) starring Maurice Chevalier in Max's role, is a very good straight comedy with many slapstick touches, quite different from all Chevalier's other early sound-era work.