Walter Makes a Movie

Walter Forde stars and co-directs this British comedy. It's not bad but also very low energy and not especially funny...so you'll have to decide whether to see it or not.

Early in the story, a famous actress has her purse stolen by Walter. Later, he hears a woman screaming in distress and runs to her aid...not realizing it's the woman he robbed AND she's acting in a movie. She quickly realizes he's the thief but instead of turning him in to the police, she feels sorry for him and offers him a job in the film. What comes next?

The film is, despite being a comedy, very low energy...which doesn't help it much. It also has only a few laughs and really could have been better. This, combined with a rather nasty insult against Greeks in the opening title card make it a movie that just isn't especially good.

Walter Forde is a sneak thief. He steals movie star Pauline Peter's handbag and later becomes involved in her latest movie in this amusing short comedy.

In terms of film-making it is a moderately primitive comedy for 1922, with a style of film-making that would have been up-to-date in Hollywood half a decade earlier. Forde is a low-key comedian among a cast that overacts a bit. There are some funny bits, especially one gag which involves smashing prop plates over his head.

Forde, who co-directed this film, later would retreat behind the camera entirely. he would enjoy his greatest successes in the late 1930s and early 1940s directing comedy features such as CHEER BOYS CHEER and the Inspector Hornleigh series. He would direct his last movie in 1949 and die in the early 1980s.