Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaJimmy is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purpose "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, somethin... Ler tudoJimmy is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purpose "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, something the owner doesn't like. But with a little help by the owner's wife it is not impossible,... Ler tudoJimmy is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purpose "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, something the owner doesn't like. But with a little help by the owner's wife it is not impossible, even when the book is bought by somebody else, put in a car and the car is stolen...
- Direção
- Roteirista
- Artistas
- Car Thief
- (as Jack O'Brien)
- Car Thief with Glasses
- (as Fighting Dick Gilbert)
- Book Thief
- (não creditado)
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Charley is a very poor bookworm who has received an offer that will make him rich if he translates "Little Red Riding Hood" into Swedish -- but he can't afford the books. So with the collaboration of a bookshop-owner's smitten daughter in Martha Sleeper (who is a great co-star -- cute as a button and very expressive; she's hilarious swooning over Charley's touch while he reads and absentmindedly touches her hand).
There follows an inspired series of complex and often set-piece gags of Charley Chase reading the book no matter what -- with a telescope above the shop's awning, and eventually bicycling next to its new owner's car, all with his usual taking of the totally absurd in stride. With Charley's singleminded determination on his goal and the impressive series of mechanical gags especially near the end this short actually starts to remind one of Buster Keaton.
There's also an inventive dream sequence inserted in which we see Charley imagining himself and another customer and Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman, an amusing concept. This is one of Charley's most memorable shorts -- growing out of a single monomaniac and absurd premise that he manages to make somehow believable, and full of inspired gags stemming from it.
The Jimmy Jumps are of variable quality but some have a surreal quality that marks them out from the average Charley Chase film (of any period). My personal favourite is I think The Rat's Knuckles but this film runs it close in its cheer zaniness. Even the initial idea - that Jump has been commissioned to translate Little Red Riding Hood into Swedish - is excellent and sets the tone for the off-beat events that follow. There is crime and a car-chase but totally unlike the equivalent events in other comedies and perfectly integrated with the central fantasy - the obsessive reader - that runs through the entire film.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
The Swedish government asks bookworm Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) to translate Little Red Riding Hood for them. Jimmy needs the extra money but he's actually never read the story so he must try to do so no matter what might get in his way. This one-reeler comes in a period where Chase had moved onto two-reelers so it's somewhat interesting that he would do a film like this when it's pretty clear that someone else might have been better for the job. I'm not saying Chase is bad here because he isn't but at the same time the material really isn't the strongest. The biggest problem is that the entire story idea is more interesting than funny. The idea that a cheap bookworm would do whatever it takes to read the story without having to buy the book is neat but we just don't get any laughs. The end of the story turns into a Buster Keaton like production as we have some bigger stunts than we normally see from Chase and this includes a sequence where he's attached to the car reading and not realizing that he's about to go over a cliff. We also get a fantasy sequence where the actual story is acted out and this here is pretty surreal and has a few laughs especially when Chase is trying to cut down some trees.
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- Le grand chaperon rouge
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- Tempo de duração10 minutos
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- 1.33 : 1