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A classic comedy about the wonderful sport of golf
Rarely is it possible to get hold of this century old gem, however luckily we had the pleasure of watching a remastered copy at Royal Troon golf club several months ago. If you ever get to experience this film yourself, you're in for a treat!
The plot of this silent flick centres on 5 gentlemen - particularly the ring leader of the group Thaddeus Whittaker - and their attempts to out-do each other in playing their round of golf as outrageously and hillariously as possible. The escapades the gentlemen get up to is enough to reduce even the hard faced members of the audience to hysterics. One memorable scene involves Thaddeus being pushed into a duck pond by a rival caddy - obviously Tad' is not a happy chap at this point and when he emerges soaking wet from the water he twats the caddy with his 9 iron so hard the club bends to the relief of the caddys head - an early slapstick device used much later on in the Tom and Jerry cartoons of the 50's and 60's.
Later in the film, Taddeus is caught relieving himself in the golf bag of another player, and whilst he and his caddy are guffawing behind a tree at the audacity of their prank, it turns out that the other players had taken part in a communal shatting session in Taddeus' bag! Much aggitated at this turn of events Tad' starts hurling handfuls of excrement at his tormentors to the tune of a great lively theme song in the background which highlights the fantastic slapstick action perfectly.
In a darker more reflective moment, Thaddeus is placed in a tricky situation when he faces the moral decision of either rescuing his tormentors when they become buried in a heavy, rain-induced landslide just south of the 17th green, or alternatively not doing so. In an exhilerating and expertly edited sequence we see the excrutiating dilemma Tad' is put through flashing through his troubled mind, and in a remarkable moment of heart warming, soul stirring beauty, we see tad' and his caddy digging out the other four gentlemen and the (less gentlemanly) caddys from the mangle of rubble, sand and divots with their pitching wedges. Certainly a more profound moment than the previous slapstick japes - and this mix of real morality, and good old fashioned high-jinks, in my view, makes this a far more complete picture than other contemporaries - 6 Gentlemen Playing Cricket In A Ridiculous Manner, and 17 Ungentlemanly Wife Beating B******* P***ing Themselves On An Upturned Rowing Boat On The River Trent.
A masterpiece of 19th century cinema, and a privalege to witness. I look forward to a possibly contemporary remake.
The plot of this silent flick centres on 5 gentlemen - particularly the ring leader of the group Thaddeus Whittaker - and their attempts to out-do each other in playing their round of golf as outrageously and hillariously as possible. The escapades the gentlemen get up to is enough to reduce even the hard faced members of the audience to hysterics. One memorable scene involves Thaddeus being pushed into a duck pond by a rival caddy - obviously Tad' is not a happy chap at this point and when he emerges soaking wet from the water he twats the caddy with his 9 iron so hard the club bends to the relief of the caddys head - an early slapstick device used much later on in the Tom and Jerry cartoons of the 50's and 60's.
Later in the film, Taddeus is caught relieving himself in the golf bag of another player, and whilst he and his caddy are guffawing behind a tree at the audacity of their prank, it turns out that the other players had taken part in a communal shatting session in Taddeus' bag! Much aggitated at this turn of events Tad' starts hurling handfuls of excrement at his tormentors to the tune of a great lively theme song in the background which highlights the fantastic slapstick action perfectly.
In a darker more reflective moment, Thaddeus is placed in a tricky situation when he faces the moral decision of either rescuing his tormentors when they become buried in a heavy, rain-induced landslide just south of the 17th green, or alternatively not doing so. In an exhilerating and expertly edited sequence we see the excrutiating dilemma Tad' is put through flashing through his troubled mind, and in a remarkable moment of heart warming, soul stirring beauty, we see tad' and his caddy digging out the other four gentlemen and the (less gentlemanly) caddys from the mangle of rubble, sand and divots with their pitching wedges. Certainly a more profound moment than the previous slapstick japes - and this mix of real morality, and good old fashioned high-jinks, in my view, makes this a far more complete picture than other contemporaries - 6 Gentlemen Playing Cricket In A Ridiculous Manner, and 17 Ungentlemanly Wife Beating B******* P***ing Themselves On An Upturned Rowing Boat On The River Trent.
A masterpiece of 19th century cinema, and a privalege to witness. I look forward to a possibly contemporary remake.
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