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A Severe Test (1913) Online
1913 Marian Swayne Vinnie Burns Alice Guy
Original Title :
A Severe Test
Genre :
Movie / Short / Comedy
Year :
1913
Directror :
Alice Guy
Cast :
Marian Swayne,Vinnie Burns
Type :
Movie
Time :
17min
Rating :
4.2/10

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Daisy Jones had been married just a year when her husband failed to kiss her one morning, and she decided that he did not love her any more. She wrote a note to her friend, Ella, telling her that she was going to leave her husband a note telling him that she had jumped in the lake. She would leave some of her clothes on the pier to make it look more plausible, and she and Ella would hide themselves by and see how he took it. She got the notes in the wrong envelopes. Ella's went to her husband and vice versa. Ella was horrified and rushed to the husband's office, where she learned the truth. The husband and Ella carry out the plan and he decides to teach her a lesson. Daisy took a suit-case with some clothes in it to the pier. Ella met her. They placed the clothes on the pier. The husband came down, looked at the clothes, acted horrified for a moment, then kicked the clothes, stuck his thumb into his vest and walked away whistling a tune. Daisy saw him and cried bitterly; then became ...
Cast overview:
Marian Swayne Marian Swayne
Vinnie Burns Vinnie Burns


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Ttyr

Ttyr

A SEVERE TEST is a short silent comedy clocking in at just 17 minutes. This features manages to pack a great deal of plot into that brief running time, including multiple twists and characters, but the main problem is that as a comedy it just doesn't work very well. The performers give typically exaggerated performances which you'd expect from the era, but they're far too serious to work and at times melodrama wins out over laughs. The inclusion of one cross-dressing character in black face is a mark of the times. In the end A SEVERE TEST works as a historical document from the era, but unlike rival horror fare such as the short FRANKENSTEIN film it has little that modern viewers can recognise or identify with.
Bynelad

Bynelad

After a year of marriage, Vinnie Burns neglects to kiss Marian Swayne goodbye one morning. Worried he no longer loves her, Marian decides to send a suicide note to him. Matters soon get out of hand in this ridiculous but not very funny comedy of manners.

Director Alice Guy was arguably the first motion picture director, but after almost two decades of work, her technique was getting extremely old-fashioned. Although the situation seems like a good idea for a comedy -- indeed, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew would do a least one very funny film with a similar plot -- Madame Guy directs her actors in a straightforward manner that does not offer many laughs. Indeed, the presence of an actor in blackface may render the entire matter unpalatable to a modern viewer otherwise disposed to enjoy this work.