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'Walk, -- You, Walk!' (1912) Online
1912 Marshall Neilan Ruth Roland Marin Sais Pat Hartigan
Original Title :
u0027Walk, -- You, Walk!u0027
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Short
Year :
1912
Directror :
Pat Hartigan
Cast :
Marshall Neilan,Ruth Roland,Marin Sais
Type :
Movie
Time :
15min
Rating :
5.0/10

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'Walk, -- You, Walk!' (1912) Online

Sam has received a new automobile as a present from his father. To show off his present he invites Rose to accompany him for a ride, and being a little fresh he demands a kiss. It is refused. He then tells Rose she will either kiss him or walk home. Rose chooses to walk and arrives home completely fagged out. Telling her experience to her sister Nell, the latter young lady fixes up a plan to humble Sam by giving him a dose of his own medicine. To carry out this scheme, Nell writes Sam asking him to take her for a ride. Sam calls at the ranch house and takes the sisters for a spin down the road. Wild flowers growing in a field by the roadside give the girls their opportunity. Sam is induced to get out of the machine and gather flowers. As soon as he is in the field the girls start off in the machine and leave Sam to walk ten miles home. Their joy not being complete, they stop at a neighbor's house and gather three or four of their girlfriends. Riding through the village, they nearly ...
Credited cast:
Marshall Neilan Marshall Neilan - Sam
Ruth Roland Ruth Roland - Rose
Marin Sais Marin Sais - Nell
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Edward Coxen Edward Coxen - Sheriff
Juanita Sponsler Juanita Sponsler - Rose's friend

Many sources have the roles of Ruth Roland and Marin Sais confused; the recently discovered film shows that Sais plays Rose and Roland is her sister Nell.


User reviews

Vijora

Vijora

When Marshall Neilan's car run out of gas and Ruth Roland says "no!", she has to walk home. However, Ruth is not the sort of girl to take this sort of thing lying down. She and her sister Marin Sais go riding with him the next day and ask him to pick them some flowers... and then drive off.

This Kalem comedy from 1912 is posted on the National Film Preservation site. While anyone interested in old movies should be interested in this, it will be a tough slog for many. One of the reasons is technical: about the seven-minute mark a lot of decomposition begins and the print becomes only erratically viewable. More than that, this Kalem film is slow. There are only three plot points in its fourteen-minute length. This could have been handled very satisfactorily as a split-reel comedy.

Kalem had a reputation and habit of making action pictures with women stars, first with Gene Gauntier and later in series and serials with Misses Roland and Sais. Pearl White might have been the serial queen, always getting in trouble and being rescued, but at Kalem, the actresses rescued themselves. This gave Kalem a corner on the market for the sort of film that appealed to independent young women. If the editing and acting was not as advanced as at Biograph, at least Kalem's actresses were not the shrinking, Victorian sort of lady that D.W. Griffith preferred.
Joony

Joony

A rather dull farce in which some pretty girls get even with a fresh youth who owns a motor car. He had invited one of the girls out, but as soon as they reached a lonely place had become fresh. This she resented and he ordered her to get out and walk. The girls plan to turn the tables, and get him to take them on a long trip. Then they run away home with the car and leave him to walk back. They do some farcical driving of the automobile and get the owner of it into trouble. Only one person in a large audience was heard to laugh and that was when the young man attempted to strike one of the girls in the face, but was prevented by the country cop who jerked him away so that he fanned the air. There are some good photographs of rough western hillsides. It will serve as a filler. - The Moving Picture World, February 10, 1912