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Life Hesitates at 40 (1935)

Review by planktonrules

Life Hesitates at 40

3/10

What were they thinking?!

This Charley Chase film has one of the strangest and most unbelievable plots I can recall for one of his movies. He apparently suffers from periods where everything seems to stop. Then the viewer is treated to several occasions where the camera freezes and the dialog continues as if they didn't stop at all. No one but Charley seems to notice this and, frankly, it seemed very contrived and weird...and not in a good way. It's never particularly funny nor does it make any sense.

In the past, I have adored Charley Chase films and have tried to watch them every time Turner Classic Movies shows them. However, oddly, today almost every Chase film they showed was lame--really poor and well below the quality I'd come to expect. Apparently, they showed the best ones first! If you do watch it, look for Alfalfa Switzer (from The Little Rascals) and James Finlayson (a frequent supporting actor in Laurel & Hardy films).
  • planktonrules
  • Jan 18, 2011

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