With a poll coming up on IMDbs Classic Film board for the best titles from 1915-1919,I started to search around for movies from that period.Taking a look at a W.C. Fields box set that my dad has recently been watching,I noticed that Fields 1915 first short film was included as an extra,which led to me jumping into the sea with the sharks.
The plot:
Sitting round a picnic table,2 men find themselves becoming interested in the same women.Due to both of them not wanting the other one to take the fair girls hand,they both decide to settle their score with a winner take all game of pool.
View on the film:
Making his acting debut, W.C. Fields gives a very good performance which still bellows even without his distinctive voice,thanks to Fields showing a real flamboyance as the whizz kid pool shark.Keeping the screenplay by Fields moving at a smooth pace,director Edwin Middleton gives the movie a great,unexpected touch of surrealism,as a stop- motion animation sequence shows the pool table to get a mind of its own! Which allows the film to really sink the pink.
The plot:
Sitting round a picnic table,2 men find themselves becoming interested in the same women.Due to both of them not wanting the other one to take the fair girls hand,they both decide to settle their score with a winner take all game of pool.
View on the film:
Making his acting debut, W.C. Fields gives a very good performance which still bellows even without his distinctive voice,thanks to Fields showing a real flamboyance as the whizz kid pool shark.Keeping the screenplay by Fields moving at a smooth pace,director Edwin Middleton gives the movie a great,unexpected touch of surrealism,as a stop- motion animation sequence shows the pool table to get a mind of its own! Which allows the film to really sink the pink.