5/10
Knockabout comedy
15 May 2009
This fun size little flick is another one-shot nonentity that features a hapless looking duo on a small vaudeville stage. Their act comprises almost entirely of one member of the duo knocking the other one about for no apparent reason. Even for the early years of cinema this one's fairly unimaginative,and the audience - staged or otherwise - obviously agree because within a minute they're pelting the woeful pair with rotten fruit. The film was apparently shot by Griffith's German cameraman Billy Bitzer but, this being the primitive movie-making year of 1903, there is little - well, no, actually - evidence of the professionalism he would later bring to Griffiths' classics.
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