The Big Show

The story involves the Rascals performing in a make-believe movie theater where they imitate Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Uncle Tom and the security guard character played by 'Gilbert, Dick'. The Chaplin imitation includes a gag repeated from Charlot soldat (1918) wherein The Little Tramp disguises himself as a tree. The Fairbanks imitation (courtesy of Mickey Daniels) specifically refers to Les trois mousquetaires (1921). The Lloyd imitation borrows from Le talisman de Grand-mère (1922).

The copyright on the title screen is supposed to be for the year 1923. It is written in Roman numerals, but as "MDCCCCXXIII." That is not the correct way to write 1923 in Roman numerals. It should have been "MCMXXIII."

Edited into Mischief Makers (1960)