Tuesday 10 April 2018

Not much luck to go round


Lucky Jim (1909)

Directed by D. W. Griffith this film stars Marion Leonard, Mack Sennett and Barry O'Moore. Gertrude decides to marry Jim over Jack but when Jim dies Jack gets his turn as husband.

The image quality of this short is not the best so it's a little hard to follow at times but you can get the general gist of what is happening. Essentially the joke here is male victims of domestic violence, which is not really funny. All in all this is not one of Griffith's best shorts.

2/5

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