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Call a Taxi!

1920 · 9 min Comedy
3.0 / 10 · TMDB

After being ejected from an establishment for being drunk and disorderly, George Rowe, Sammy Brooks, Hughie Mack and Snub Pollard form a drunken singing quartet in the street before a car comes and takes Sammy and George away, leaving the other two staggering in the road. Snub and Hughie agree to go somewhere "where there are no wives, landlords or prohibitionists", and so three months later they emerge on a prairie with supplies dwindling.

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Year 1920
Country United States of America
Genre Comedy
Director Charley Chase
Runtime 9 min.
Rating TMDB: 3.0/10 (1 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film constructs its humor on the contrast between urban chaos and pastoral emptiness, relying on the physical comedy and sight gags of silent cinema. Those who tire of overly complicated plots will find simple, escalating absurdity in this prairie-bound misadventure.

What lingers after the final reel is the charm of a straightforward escapade, where every solution begets a new, ridiculous problem for the hapless duo. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Charley Chase

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