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I have never watched many lynching events portrayed taking place in the 20th century in films. Just staged pre 20th century films. I watched a online video about lost films that were rediscovered and they talked about this and the video showed color world war 2 movies. I said to myself how can that be? So I was happy to find someone posted it online and watched. This is not a straight review on my part, I did not watch it all the way through. I was very bored watching, so I skipped around. The lynching part really attracted my attention and I would check it out just for that. Not to give away spoilers but in my opinion its too exaggerated. I'm happy they discovered it though, cool lost stuff re-found.

My 10 rating is based on my earlier viewing when I was in my 20s. I would watch Gigantor religiously after school on 1960s NYC TV, definitely one of my favorite shows at the time. Why? Because of the violence of course, lol. I found Gigantor on VHS tapes (not cheap either) in the 1990s, but you can watch it now online for free, look for the Japanese versions too, they are very different then the repackaged American version, it's called Tetsujin 28-go. Here is an epic giant robot battle between Gigantor and Dr Catsmeow's robot called the Flip Q Man. Why call it that? Because the robot has an upside down Q on it's chest, lol. It pushes Gigantor to it's limits and Gigantor must resort to his inner robot strength and Jimmy's joy stick maneuvering. It gets pretty brutal at the end, just the thing for my young boy's mind when I watched it as a kid. 10 of 10. Anime fans will like this one and if you were to only watch one episode of Gigantor, this is a good one.

I originally was going to give this a 10 for the historical reference of being the earlies filmed pieing scene, but after reading about the pie in the face act, it had been around on stage since 1905 in a long playing show in London, so they didn't invent the pie in the face act in this film. Charlie Chaplin would do the pie in the face on stage during that time and maybe he took the gag to America, because he was a part of Essanay Studios, the studio that made this film. Ben Turpin plays a "masher", if you are unfamiliar with the term it means "A man who habitually makes aggressive, unwelcome sexual advances to women." and he goes from place to place aggressively mashing on women to which none respond favorably. Even though it's with Ben Turpin, there are no closeups of his face so no cross eyed shots. The pie in the face scene is a must watch and the main reason why I watched it, despite the film's very short running time, it still seemed to take an eternity to finish. The scene with the telephone I am guessing was a cross circuit and getting an electric shock (real early telephones seemed kind of dangerous!). You can tell this is the early pie in the face act because they used a fruit pie, not the usually standard whipped cream or shaving creme pie. I think as a comedy short, it's a 2 but the first to film a huge comedy act deserves a 3 star boost so, I'm giving this a 5. It's available on youtube and the internet archive. It probably should be restored!