Short film
Fire Away
1925 · 17 min
A rapid-fire silent slapstick where impossibly lucky gags pile up so fast you just goggle at the absurd timing.
- Directed by
- Stephen Roberts
- Starring
- Al St. John, Jim Kelley, Lucille Hutton
- Overview
- Nominally about attempts to steal a gold mine, the movie starts out with the air of a realistic comedy, then immediately descends into a series of perfectly timed gags which made me goggle at their improbability -- not the sort of thing you normally think of in a slapstick comedy. Very quickly the unerring ability of ropes to loop themselves around tree roots, stopping Al from plummeting to his death or an explosion to drop him on a bull came to make me goggle again.
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- Directed by
- Stephen Roberts
- Starring
- Al St. John, Jim Kelley, Lucille Hutton
