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Time Out for Trouble

1938 · 19 min

A breezy, featherweight comic short that coasts on silly misunderstandings and gentle slapstick, easy to dip into and forget.

Overview: Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.

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Tone
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
deception
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	0
Humour	7
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	1
Complexity	2
Emotional weight	2

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Del Lord
Written by: Victor Travis, Searle Kramer
Starring: Charley Chase, Ann Doran, Dick Curtis, Vernon Dent, Bess Flowers, Louise Stanley
Runtime: 19 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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