Shot in the Excitement (1914)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Partially entertaining film from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios has a woman (Alice Howell) being kissed by a suitor (Al St. John) while another suitor (Rube Miller) shows up and of course gets jealous. Pretty soon the two men are throwing all sorts of objects at one another when shortly others start to join. SHOT IN THE EXCITEMENT is pretty much what you'd expect from a Sennett produced movie as there's all sorts of violence and it ends with a big chase. I think many people will probably watch this and find it to be rather childish but I thought this was part of the charm. The first half of the movie pretty much just shows the two guys getting mad at each other and throwing bricks and other objects at each other. Showing it's age, the woman is actually the one who takes the majority of the abuse as she has a rock banged over her head and she even gets punched in the face. Can you imagine this happening in a film today? I found most of this to be funny but I think the film runs out of gas towards the end when it turns into a chase picture. I will say that the effect used to show the cannon ball flying after the people was actually pretty impressive for the day.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Partially entertaining film from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios has a woman (Alice Howell) being kissed by a suitor (Al St. John) while another suitor (Rube Miller) shows up and of course gets jealous. Pretty soon the two men are throwing all sorts of objects at one another when shortly others start to join. SHOT IN THE EXCITEMENT is pretty much what you'd expect from a Sennett produced movie as there's all sorts of violence and it ends with a big chase. I think many people will probably watch this and find it to be rather childish but I thought this was part of the charm. The first half of the movie pretty much just shows the two guys getting mad at each other and throwing bricks and other objects at each other. Showing it's age, the woman is actually the one who takes the majority of the abuse as she has a rock banged over her head and she even gets punched in the face. Can you imagine this happening in a film today? I found most of this to be funny but I think the film runs out of gas towards the end when it turns into a chase picture. I will say that the effect used to show the cannon ball flying after the people was actually pretty impressive for the day.