All Wet (1924 film)
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Directed by | Leo McCarey |
Produced by | Hal Roach |
Starring | Charley Chase |
Cinematography | Len Powers[1] |
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Distributed by | Pathé Exchange[1] |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent 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]
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.
Cast
- Charley Chase as Jimmie Jump
- William Gillespie as the other driver
- 'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil as the garage mechanic
- Jack Gavin as the piano mover
- Gale Henry (uncredited)[1]
- Janet Gaynor (uncredited)[1]
- Martha Sleeper (uncredited)[1]
- Olive Borden (uncredited)[3]
Production
All Wet was shot over the course of seven days at Hollenbeck Park, near downtown Los Angeles.[4]
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."[5]
Legacy
The main gag of the car stuck in the watery ditch was remade by Chase in the 1933 talkie short Fallen Arches.[6] 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".[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "All Wet". Silent Era. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-7876-4068-2. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-5836-3. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-313-27574-6. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-8093-3497-1. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
- ISBN 978-1-62933-051-8. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
- ISBN 978-1-7322735-0-4. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
External links
- All Wet at IMDb
- All Wet at SilentEra