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Kid Speed

  • 1924
  • 18min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
5,8/10
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Dorothy Dwan and Larry Semon in Kid Speed (1924)
SlapstickActionComedyRomanceShortSport

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA wealthy business man organizes a race. One the competitors is in love with his daughter. A love triangle develops with another competitor. Whoever wins the race will have the opportunity t... Leer todoA wealthy business man organizes a race. One the competitors is in love with his daughter. A love triangle develops with another competitor. Whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit her, leading to plenty of action.A wealthy business man organizes a race. One the competitors is in love with his daughter. A love triangle develops with another competitor. Whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit her, leading to plenty of action.

  • Dirección
    • Larry Semon
    • Noel M. Smith
  • Guión
    • Leon Lee
    • Larry Semon
    • Noel M. Smith
  • Reparto principal
    • Oliver Hardy
    • Larry Semon
    • Dorothy Dwan
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    5,8/10
    271
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Larry Semon
      • Noel M. Smith
    • Guión
      • Leon Lee
      • Larry Semon
      • Noel M. Smith
    • Reparto principal
      • Oliver Hardy
      • Larry Semon
      • Dorothy Dwan
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    • 2Reseñas de críticos
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    Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy
    • Dangerous Dan McGraw
    • (as Oliver N. Hardy)
    Larry Semon
    Larry Semon
    • The Speed Kid
    Dorothy Dwan
    Dorothy Dwan
    • Lou DuPoys
    James J. Jeffries
    James J. Jeffries
    • Blacksmith
    Frank Alexander
    • Mr. Avery DuPoys
    William Hauber
    • Sheriff Phil O'Delfya
    • (as Bill Hauber)
    Grover Ligon
      Curtis 'Snowball' McHenry
      • The Speed Kid's co-driver
      • Dirección
        • Larry Semon
        • Noel M. Smith
      • Guión
        • Leon Lee
        • Larry Semon
        • Noel M. Smith
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      3F Gwynplaine MacIntyre

      Get out and walk.

      Although 'The Great Race' is one of my favourite movies (and, in my opinion, the funniest comedy ever made), in general I dislike movies about auto races ... and especially movies such as 'The Four-Wheeled Terror' in which the autos are racing through open countryside rather than a purpose-built race track. Those roads are meant for regular vehicles and pedestrians, not for a few juiced-up idiots who get their joys from breaking the speed limit and endangering public safety.

      However, 'The Four-Wheeled Terror' does offer a few pleasures: more than usual for a Larry Semon film. We get a brief performance by heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries, well-cast as a blacksmith. Semon has an interesting and atypical gag near the beginning of this comedy short: he sees his reflection in a mirror with a horizontal crack, and in the broken glass the middle of his reflection's face is missing.

      Semon plays a racecar driver here. For implausible reasons, some gangsters decide to nobble his car ... using bombs if necessary. There are some semi-amusing title cards parodying the poetry of Robert W Service, so (in the service of parodying Service) Oliver Hardy's villain is cried Dangerous Dan McGraw, while Dorothy Dwan is the lady that's known as Lou. In real life, Dwan was Semon's wife as well as his leading lady in some of his films.

      There are two pleasant surprises here. Semon's race car prominently displays the number 14, rather than the more obvious 13. Also, although many Larry Semon films feature gratuitous and unfunny racist gags about cowardly black men, here Semon's co-driver is played by a black man who actually portrays a fairly realistic human being. The black man is Spencer Bell, who appeared in some other Semon films under the unfortunate monicker G. Howe Black.

      This time round, Semon seems to be trying more for thrills than for comedy ... taking a leaf from Harold Lloyd? So, I'll forgive 'The Four-Wheeled Terror' for its lack of humour. Unfortunately, I didn't find it very thrilling either ... and (as usual in a Semon flick) most of the stunt work is unconvincing. The final gag was unpleasant to look at. This one rates just 3 out of 10.
      7King Of The World

      Kid Speed

      This is good film, and it is clear that Larry Semon has left no expense, while making this film. Their are huge sets, and a fleet of racing cars used in this production, in order too extract every laugh possible. Larry Semon does try to hard to make some of the gags as funny as possible, and that some times that does backfires, and the jokes does not raise laughs, by todays comedy standards anyway. Saying that, Larry does manage to produce some of the best sight gags that I have seen, and some really dramatic action sequences. The plot is slightly predictable, but that is overcome with the other elements.
      8doogieUK

      Genius

      I remember seeing this on TV about twenty years ago and many of its images have stuck in my memory. It's great to see all these 'Laurel without Hardy' shorts and features made available on DVD, especially when they seem to have stopped being shown on TV (here in the UK anyway). One of the lesser known silent comedy greats, the final five minutes of Kid Speed features one of the best car chases ever put to film, and stunts (performed by Larry Sermon himself) that put many of today's CGI-fuelled sequences to shame. It's also always interesting to see Hardy in one of his pre-Laurel and Hardy appearances, and the underrated Larry Sermon is a pleasure to watch.
      didi-5

      Larry Semon - lost talent?

      We all know what became of Oliver Hardy, but Larry Semon's early death in the 1920s robbed us of what could have been a great comedian in the sound era as well as a talented presence in the silents.

      This car race-themed film is largely a number of routines on cars crashing, stunts over cliffs and the like, and Semon's worried white face popping up in manic mode as he speeds around in his car. Hardy is as good as you would expect as 'dangerous Dan', always on the thin edge of the wedge.

      Best bit? Barrels and roofs and tar and everything else as the car shoots through the wooden walls en route to the end of the race. The teens and twenties had numerous examples of speed, speed, speed, and this is a good example. Fast, furious and frenetic.
      6bkoganbing

      A Harold Lloyd project without Lloyd

      Having seen Larry Semon a now forgotten silent screen comedian in a couple of films it seems like he was searching for an individual style that all the greats had that set them apart. In Kid Speed which Semon also produced he looked to be imitating Harold Lloyd. The film sure could have used Lloyd as Lloyd and it's just the kind of part that Lloyd would have taken to easily.

      Semon is an automobile mechanic with dreams of being another Barney Oldfield and also hoping to win the girl. But perennial villain in the Semon shorts Oliver Hardy is his rival.

      Having seen Ollie now in a few silent shorts before he teamed up with Stan Laurel, it's a good thing that Hal Roach created the team. Hardy was a good player in these various shorts, but truly developed his individual persona with Stan.

      Larry Semon apparently never did, though the film does hold up well.

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        Former boxing World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries makes a quick cameo appearance as a blacksmith. Jeffries held the heavyweight title from 1898-1904, retiring undefeated with a record of 19-0. He came out of retirement six years later and lost to Jack Johnson, leaving his professional record at 19-1. He was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

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      • Fecha de lanzamiento
        • 16 de noviembre de 1924 (Estados Unidos)
      • País de origen
        • Estados Unidos
      • Idioma
        • Inglés
      • Títulos en diferentes países
        • The Four Wheel Terror
      • Localizaciones del rodaje
        • Charles Ray Productions - 1725 Fleming Street, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
      • Empresas productoras
        • Chadwick Pictures Corporation
        • Larry Semon Productions
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      • Duración
        18 minutos
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Mezcla de sonido
        • Silent
      • Relación de aspecto
        • 1.33 : 1

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