All Wet (1924 film)

All Wet
All Wet
Directed by	Leo McCarey
Produced by	Hal Roach
Starring	Charley Chase
Cinematography	Len Powers
Production; company	Hal Roach Studios
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	November 23, 1924;
Running time	10 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film; English intertitles

All Wet is a 1924 American film starring Charley Chase and featuring William Gillespie, 'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil and Jack Gavin.^[1] It also featured an uncredited appearance of the future star Janet Gaynor in one of her very first roles.^[2]

Plot

Jimmie Jump is a boarder who receives an urgent telegram telling him to pick up a large shipment from the train station at exactly 2:30 p.m. the following Wednesday. On the appointed day, Jimmie has great difficulty getting to the station in his Ford Model T: enroute, the vehicle becomes stuck in mud, is sunk in a lake, then torn apart by a tow truck. To add insult to injury, Jimmie is cited for illegal parking. Ironically, he discovers that his errand was performed on the wrong day.^[3]

Cast

Charley Chase as Jimmie Jump
William Gillespie as the other driver
'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil as the garage mechanic
Jack Gavin as the piano mover
Gale Henry (uncredited)^[1]
Janet Gaynor (uncredited)^[1]
Martha Sleeper (uncredited)^[1]
Olive Borden (uncredited)^[4]

Production

All Wet was shot over the course of seven days at Hollenbeck Park, near downtown Los Angeles.^[5]

Reception

In a contemporary review of the film, Thomas C. Kennedy wrote, "When it comes to comedy of the clean-cut, theatrically effective sort, there is no surer hand in the realm of short subject specialists than Charles Parrott."^[6]

Legacy

The main gag of the car stuck in the watery ditch was remade by Chase in the 1933 talkie short Fallen Arches.^[7] In his book, Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom, critic Leonard Maltin wrote that this "hilarious" scene triumphed over the remake partly because "the reality of a talking world couldn't accommodate bizarre or surreal sight gags".^[8]

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "All Wet". Silent Era. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ Commire, Anne, ed. (2000). Women in World History. Gale virtual reference library. Vol. 6. Yorkin Publications. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-7876-4068-2. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ Hooper and Poague, 1980 in Leo McCarey Filmography section, p. 297: Plot summary.
^ Vogel, Michelle (2010). Olive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Joy Girl". McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7864-5836-3. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ Billips, Connie J. (1992). Janet Gaynor: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-27574-6. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ Ward, Richard Lewis (2016). When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8093-3497-1. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ S.D., Trav (2013). Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies, From Nickelodeons to Youtube. BookBaby. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-62933-051-8. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ Maltin, Leonard (2018). Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom. GoodKnight Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-7322735-0-4. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

Sources

Hooper, Gary and Poague, Leland. 1980. Leo McCarey Filmography, in The Hollywood Professionals: Wilder and McCarey, Volume 7. The Tanvity Press, A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc, San Diego, California. pp. 295–314 ISBN 0-498-02181-5
Poague, Leland. 1980. The Hollywood Professionals: Wilder and McCarey, Volume 7. The Tanvity Press, A. S. Barnes and Company, Inc, San Diego, California. ISBN 0498-02181-5

External links

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[Silent_Era-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "All Wet". Silent Era. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

[Commire_Klezmer_2000_p.-2] Commire, Anne, ed. (2000). Women in World History. Gale virtual reference library. Vol. 6. Yorkin Publications. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-7876-4068-2. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

[3] Hooper and Poague, 1980 in Leo McCarey Filmography section, p. 297: Plot summary.

[4] Vogel, Michelle (2010). Olive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Joy Girl". McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7864-5836-3. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

[5] Billips, Connie J. (1992). Janet Gaynor: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-27574-6. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

[6] Ward, Richard Lewis (2016). When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8093-3497-1. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

[7] S.D., Trav (2013). Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies, From Nickelodeons to Youtube. BookBaby. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-62933-051-8. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

[8] Maltin, Leonard (2018). Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom. GoodKnight Books. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-7322735-0-4. Retrieved February 19, 2024.

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