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Becoming Charley Chase
Flirts, The (1919)
* (out of 4)
After Chaplin impersonator Billy West left the comedy series, he hand picked Harry Mann (no jokes, that's his name) to take over his role as the Tramp. In this film Mann and Jimmie Adams play a couple losers who stalk out women in a hotel and constantly flirt with them. That's pretty much the entire story to this two-reeler that runs about two reels too long. Perhaps I'm just not a Chaplin impersonator type but I found this film to be less annoying than ROLLING STONE but that isn't saying too much. This here is just 20-minutes of pure boredom as we really don't see anything funny and the comic acts are rather bland from start to finish. Mann's Chaplin act is somewhat spot-on but, like West, he just doesn't have that certain magic touch or timing to get any laughs. I found the film to move very slowly as we just pretty much got the same thing over and over as the two men had to fight one another off to get to the latest women and then there's the hotel detective that they must get around.
* (out of 4)
After Chaplin impersonator Billy West left the comedy series, he hand picked Harry Mann (no jokes, that's his name) to take over his role as the Tramp. In this film Mann and Jimmie Adams play a couple losers who stalk out women in a hotel and constantly flirt with them. That's pretty much the entire story to this two-reeler that runs about two reels too long. Perhaps I'm just not a Chaplin impersonator type but I found this film to be less annoying than ROLLING STONE but that isn't saying too much. This here is just 20-minutes of pure boredom as we really don't see anything funny and the comic acts are rather bland from start to finish. Mann's Chaplin act is somewhat spot-on but, like West, he just doesn't have that certain magic touch or timing to get any laughs. I found the film to move very slowly as we just pretty much got the same thing over and over as the two men had to fight one another off to get to the latest women and then there's the hotel detective that they must get around.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Mar 18, 2010
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- Runtime22 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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