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The Big Show (1923) Online

The Big Show (1923) Online
1923 Joe Cobb Jackie Condon Mickey Daniels Robert F. McGowan
Original Title :
The Big Show
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Short / Family
Year :
1923
Directror :
Robert F. McGowan
Cast :
Joe Cobb,Jackie Condon,Mickey Daniels
Writer :
Hal Roach,H.M. Walker
Type :
Movie
Time :
20min
Rating :
6.7/10

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The Big Show (1923) Online

The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
Credited cast:
Joe Cobb Joe Cobb - Joe (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Jackie Condon Jackie Condon - Jackie (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Mickey Daniels Mickey Daniels - Mickey (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Jack Davis Jack Davis - Jack (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins Allen 'Farina' Hoskins - Farina (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Mary Kornman Mary Kornman - Mary (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Ernest Morrison Ernest Morrison - Booker T. (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Richard Billings Richard Billings - Muggsy (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Andy Samuel Andy Samuel - Andy (as Hal Roach's Rascals)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roy Brooks Roy Brooks - DeRues
Dick Gilbert Dick Gilbert - Security guard
Billy Lord Billy Lord - Harold Lloyd impersonator (unconfirmed)

The story involves the Rascals performing in a make-believe movie theater where they imitate Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Uncle Tom and the security guard character played by 'Gilbert, Dick'. The Chaplin imitation includes a gag repeated from Gewehr über! (1918) wherein The Little Tramp disguises himself as a tree. The Fairbanks imitation (courtesy of Mickey Daniels) specifically refers to Der vierte Musketier (1921). The Lloyd imitation borrows from Großmutters Junge (1922).

The make-believe movie theater sports a real movie poster, which advertises Chaplin's Die müßige Klasse (1921).

As in other early Hal Roach Rascals shorts, the Farina character is a girl.


User reviews

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from earth

The Gang puts on a `County Fair' including barnyard animals dressed/costumed as `wild' African creatures. The center piece of the fair has the Rascals paying tribute to their favorite film stars by staging a mock movie/live show for an appreciative audience. Spoofs include imitations by the kids of Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Harold Lloyd in recreations of their recent movies! Packed with squirrel driven shooting galleries, dog driven amusement thrill rides this Fair is more than fair! I hope these silent OUR GANG films get released on DVD soon as today's kids would love it and we need to keep alive the appreciate of gentle, old fashioned family fun!
Frey

Frey

This Hal Roach comedy short, The Big Show, is the seventh in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. It's also notable as the debut of two more important members of the gang: chubby Joe Cobb and new leading lady Mary Kornman. The gang can't afford the county fair that's currently playing in town so they look through the peepholes at the gate but a cop shoos them away. They eventually have their own fair with various pets disguised as the wild animals. But the real attraction is a "movie" starring the big stars of the time impersonated by the gang. Among those imitated: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and William S. Hart. I'll stop there and just say this was quite amusing if not completely hilarious. It probably helps if you've seen the films reenacted by the gang. So that's a recommendation of The Big Show.
Gaudiker

Gaudiker

This was the seventh in the silent 'Our Gang' series produced by Hal Roach.

That's it! I've had enough of these silent shorts. 'The Little Rascals' only does it for me with sound. Without sound it is like dry land swimming.