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SHOULD MEN WALK HOME?

5^th film

 

Copyright: January 4, 1927, Hal Roach-Pathe, 2 reels

 

Director: Leo McCarey

 

Photography: Floyd Jackson

 

Edited by: Richard Currier

 

Titles by: H.M. Walker

 

Written by: Albert Austin and Alfred J. Goulding

 

Costumes by: Will Lambert

 

Cast: Mabel Normand, Creighton Hale, Eugene Pallette, Oliver Hardy, Gloria Lee (double for Mabel).

 

Location: Roach City, Culver City, California

 

Plot: From the U.S. Copyright Office synopsis, “The boy and girl, both amateur burglars join forces and attend a party in search of some famous jewels.  After pursuing them all evening, they lose out and promise to go straight.  As the boy shakes hands on leaving, a lot of silver falls out of his clothes and they are forced to flee.”

 

Comments: This is the most unusual of all Mabel’s films because in it she plays a “bad” girl -- a highwaywoman with a gun holding up vehicles early on, a jewel thief as the film progresses.  It is all in fun and enjoyable to see her doing something so different.

 

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