Rips and Rushes

02/05/1917

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0hr 14min

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Comedy

STORY

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Hughie Mack
  • Jimmy Aubrey
  • Alice Mann
  • John Costello
  • Earl Montgomery

    Director

  • Larry Semon

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Vitagraph Company of America

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • No Language