Grief (1921) Poster

(1921)

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Good Grief!
boblipton15 April 2016
This is one of the many unidentified reels of film which sat for decades at the Library of Congress until it was identified. It can be seen on FOUND AT MOSTLY LOST, a DVD of such items issued by Overcrank Productions. Given some decomposition in the print and some erratic editing that seems to have added a group of children watching a 6year old and a toddler reenact Chaplin's THE KID, it is occasionally worth looking at for individual bits, but not as a whole.

This is mildly surprising. Its producer-director was Jack White, eldest brother of Jules White of Three Stooges fame; Jack was the most talented of three brothers and wound up running Educational Pictures' comedy division in the 1920s. He had gotten the job as a skilled editor who had saved an early Lloyd Hamilton comedy.
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What's left of this one is in really rough shape.
planktonrules13 August 2018
Old movies have a tendency to degrade due to the volatile nitrate filmstock. Often, it turns to dust or melts....and it can even explode! Because of this, most of the silents and a very large number of films made before about 1950 are either gone or, in the case of "Grief", are in really rough shape.

"Grief" consists of one reel that is very decayed in portions. It's so bad that I am hesitant to recommend anyone look for the film. What remains appears almost like two separate movies--a portion with the comic Jimmie Adams as well as a portion that looks like an Our Gang comedy (though this was made a year before the Hal Roach series began). The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one.

So is it any good? Not especially.
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