Polycarpe en villégiature (1913)
Short, Comedy
Charles Servaes decides it's time to get out of the city, so he ties an abandoned bath tub to a truck and lets it tow him to the seaside. Once there, he spends his time talking to the camera with a self-satisfied smirk and annoying the people around him until the police carry him and his bath tub to the pokey.Here's European slapstick at its most annoying, following the dictum that funniness involves melted lead or boiling oil -- with some one else feeling the pain. It can be ameliorated by a sense of character, but Polycarpe is a self-involved moron, with no thought of consequence to anyone. As aresult, this triggered anger instead of laughter.
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France
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