Chasing Choo Choos

1927
21m

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A two-reel version of Play Safe (1927) showing only the train chase.A two-reel version of Play Safe (1927) showing only the train chase.A two-reel version of Play Safe (1927) showing only the train chase.

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7.4/10

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Monty Banks

The Boy

Virginia Lee Corbin

Virginia Craig

Leo Willis

A Thug

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10/10

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You're a star of silent short comedies and your first feature is a bomb. What do you you do? You cut eighty percent of it and leave the good parts. That's what happened here. Apparently his feature, PLAY SAFE wasn't a draw at the theaters, so they cut out almost all the explication and left in just enough to set up a marvellous sequence in which Monty Banks chases after a runaway train in order to rescue his sweetheart. Beautifully timed and shot on site, this has an immediacy and reality that helps make great thrill comedy.

boblipton
Mar 30, 2002
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According to the website Patch: "Roughly seven minutes of the 22-minute "Chasing Choo Choos" silent movie features dramatic runaway train scenes showcasing the San Diego & Arizona Railway (SD&A) locomotive and freight cars with scenes of San Diego's rural backcountry."

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We see the heroine Virginia Craig several times in a Union Pacific boxcar when Monty is chasing the runaway train. When he finally catches the train and gets on board, he runs across the roofs of the boxcars to the boxcar in which she is trapped. When he lowers himself to the door, the boxcar has become one belonging the Pennsylvania Railroad.