The Plasterers (1929)
1929 · Short film · 7 min · dir. Monte Brice
- Comedy
Synopsis
A bizarre comedy short in which knockabout comics Charles O'Donnell and Jack Blair show up to repair a woman's house, but spend more time wrecking things and doing pratfalls. There's even a pantomime horse that causes trouble!
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Monte Brice
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1929-12-28
- Running time
- 7 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Comedy Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
- Monte Brice Director
- Charles O'Donnell
- Jack Blair
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Watched this back to back with Chaplin · Yourturn Myturn · 2025-06-02
It's interesting to compare the slapstick of this short to any of the Charlie Chaplin short films that have a similar sort of routine. The six minutes of crazy bonking and bizarre flipping around is about as close to a circus clown interlude as you can get... but dressing this up as some kind of tradesman's work-site makes it feel extremely absurd (and not necessarily in a way that makes it feel funnier).
