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(1913)

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4/10
A one-joke film.
planktonrules14 February 2019
Mabel Normand stars in this comedy, though it's really not all that funny.

The film begins in an office for the bank president. Mabel and the president's daughter are there and playing hide and seek. At one point, it appears as if the child was hiding in the vault...and the vault closes and locks! So, they call the police to help and they send an idiot (Ford Sterling). In the end, all's well that ends well.

My summary pretty much says it all and there's little more to it. Not bad...just not funny.
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5/10
Saying "Don't Panic" Is a Waste of Time in a Keystone Short
boblipton13 September 2018
Harold Lloyd is not in this movie, despite the rumors. Neither did Arthur Hailey write the play this was based on; that was TIME LOCK, produced about forty-five years later, nine times longer, and not a a quarter as funny.

Everyone is anxious to get out of the bank that day, so when Billy Jacobs goes into the vault, Mabel Normand says good. When the clerk locks the vault -- after Billy has gone out to play on the street -- everyone panics in best Keystone style, calling in the Kops and the equally incompetent Fire Department.

It's a perfectly acceptable and amusing one-reeler from Sennett's studio, even if the fine cast -- including Mabel, Ford Sterling, Dot Farley, but not, I repeat, not Harold Lloyd mugs nicely for the camera.
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7/10
Little Girl In Danger Or At Least People Think She Is
jayraskin113 November 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This film lacks much of the slapstick that we expect from Keystone. It is really more strange than funny. Mabel plays a game of hide and seek with a little girl. She hides in a time vault. Mabel gets called away. The girl sneaks outside. A clerk locks the time vault. Everybody thinks the little girl is locked in the time vault. The fire department and police are summoned. In the meantime there are some cute shots of the little girl playing with a cute dog and some other children. Mabel is natural and endearing as usual. Ford Sterling does a small but funny bit as a policemen. The film has more of a Griffith Biograph suspenseful feel to it. It is worth watching for fans of early silent film comedy, as an example of how serious Sennett could be.
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The Six Minute Wonder
Single-Black-Male29 October 2003
The 20 year old Harold Lloyd sustained himself by doing extra work in one-reeler films like this. John Wayne did the same at his age, so it wasn't unusual that Lloyd would break into the industry through extra work. His contemporary, Hal Roach, was doing the same.
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Based upon a definite plot
deickemeyer21 August 2017
There are some very funny moments in this offering, as it is based upon a definite plot and the audience knows just what is going on. The child is supposed to be locked in the time safe, and the efforts to get it open pile up some laughable situations. - The Moving Picture World, April 5, 1913
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