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Pat and Patachon Invent the Gunpowder

1931 · 99 min

A gentle old-fashioned comedy of harmless scheming and boarding-house mishaps, played broad and slow.

Directed by
Lau Lauritzen Sr.
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Carl Schenstrøm, Harald Madsen, Jørgen Lund
Overview
In a boarding house in the city live our friends Pat and Patachon, who have settled down in relative comfort for a modest sum of money. In the room next door lives an old inventor, a good friend of Pat and Patachon's. He’s been working on a television set for some time now, and it seems that his efforts will bear fruit. Patachon has caught the inventing bug and wants to come up with smokeless and noiseless gunpowder. All the while, Pat becomes increasingly worried about his friend. Two shady gentlemen are now attempting to steal the valuable drawings for the television invention, and Pat and Patachon become suspects in the case. Fortunately, the real thieves are caught, and Patachon gets the opportunity to demonstrate his ingenious invention.

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Directed by
Lau Lauritzen Sr.
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Carl Schenstrøm, Harald Madsen, Jørgen Lund
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    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
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    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • friendship
    • crime
    • deception
    Places
    • big city
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    family
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    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action2
    Horror0
    Humour6
    Realism5
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness1
    Complexity2
    Emotional weight2

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    Genres
    comedy
    Directed by
    Lau Lauritzen Sr.
    Written by
    Arnold Vilhelm Olsen, Alice O'Fredericks, Lau Lauritzen Sr.
    Starring
    Carl Schenstrøm, Harald Madsen, Jørgen Lund, Marguerite Viby, Nina Kalckar, Anton De Verdier, Kai Holm, Sigurd Langberg
    Runtime
    99 min
    Country
    Denmark
    Languages
    No Language

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