DUMMIES (1928) Larry Semon

[Richard M Roberts]

Pretty good copy of Larry Semon's next-to-last short comedy, unfortunately with Italian subtitles, but ir makes okay sense:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12ei7jMeSY


RICHARD M ROBERTS

[Gary Johnson]

I watched this over the weekend. I haven't seen most of Semon's late silent shorts so DUMMIES was a first time for me and yet, afterwards I felt like I had seen it before.
Many times before....

Larry never did bother to purchase a new jokebook of sight gags in his career, did he?

[Ed Watz]

Larry took the advice of a mid-1920s fan magazine a little too literally when it was suggested that Semon should slow down the tempo, and observe how Harry Langdon plays a scene to milk his gag sequences. Larry didn't lessen his pace much but you can see his attempts to imitate Langdon in his final 1927-28 two-reelers.