All Wet (1924 film)

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All Wet
Directed by Leo McCarey
Produced by Hal Roach
Starring Charley Chase
CinematographyLen Powers [1]
Production
company
Distributed by Pathé Exchange [1]
Release date
  • November 23, 1924 (1924-11-23) [1]
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

All Wet is a 1924 American film starring Charley Chase and featuring William Gillespie, 'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil and Jack Gavin. [1] It also featured an uncredited appearance of the future star Janet Gaynor in one of her very first roles. [2]

Contents

Plot

Jimmie Jump is a boarder who receives an urgent telegram telling him to pick up a large shipment from the train station at exactly 2:30 p.m. the following Wednesday. On the appointed day, Jimmie has great difficulty getting to the station in his Ford Model T: enroute, the vehicle becomes stuck in mud, is sunk in a lake, then torn apart by a tow truck. To add insult to injury, Jimmie is cited for illegal parking. Ironically, he discovers that his errand was performed on the wrong day. [3]

Cast

Production

The cars stuck in the mud scenes were filmed on Carson Street in Culver City, California. The following homes on Carson Street are visible during the film: 8858, 8860, 8862, 8868 and 8885. [5]

Reception

In a contemporary review of the film, Thomas C. Kennedy wrote, "When it comes to comedy of the clean-cut, theatrically effective sort, there is no surer hand in the realm of short subject specialists than Charles Parrott." [6]

Legacy

The main gag of the car stuck in the watery ditch was remade by Chase in the 1933 talkie short Fallen Arches. [7] In his book, Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom, critic Leonard Maltin wrote that this "hilarious" scene triumphed over the remake partly because "the reality of a talking world couldn't accommodate bizarre or surreal sight gags". [8]

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "All Wet". Silent Era. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  2. ↑ Commire, Anne, ed. (2000). Women in World History. Gale virtual reference library. Vol. 6. Yorkin Publications. p. 120. ISBN   978-0-7876-4068-2 . Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  3. ↑ Hooper and Poague, 1980 in Leo McCarey Filmography section, p. 297: Plot summary.
  4. ↑ Vogel, Michelle (2010). Olive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Joy Girl". McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 155. ISBN   978-0-7864-5836-3 . Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  5. ↑ Now, Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and. "Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now". Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
  6. ↑ Ward, Richard Lewis (2016). When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 82. ISBN   978-0-8093-3497-1 . Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  7. ↑ S.D., Trav (2013). Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies, From Nickelodeons to Youtube. BookBaby. p. 176. ISBN   978-1-62933-051-8 . Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  8. ↑ Maltin, Leonard (2018). Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom. GoodKnight Books. p. 131. ISBN   978-1-7322735-0-4 . Retrieved February 19, 2024.

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