| Call A Cop | ||
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| Catalog #: | 461066 | |
| Clip Number: | 461066-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HSC 28 | |
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| Location: | Various Locations | |
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| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/FICTION FILMS: Comedy | |
| Description: | ON PREVIEW TAPE # 992080 This is a silent British comedy starring Neal Burns, one of the lesser known silent comedians. Unfortunately a narration and stock musical score has been added. The following is not so much a shot list as it is a list of the general goings on, the happenings so as to clue you in to some of the scripted insanity better than a shot list would. Rod (Burns), an young, affected, wealthy man, wakes up one morning to find out via telegram delivered by his butler that his gal is to arrive that day on a train. He fancies himself up and gets ready to leave but a cop has come over unannounced to arrest Rod for several outstanding traffic tickets. Neal reluctantly accompanies the cop to the police station but he tries unsuccessfully to shake the pig every chance he gets (he hides in a breadbox, hides behind a pillar, makes the cop fall into an open manhole). They get to court where Rod bribes a big burly man named Bullwinkle to take the heat for him, to pretend he is Rod when called to face the judge. For two hundred dollars he agrees and ends up getting a lengthy sentence on behalf of Rod, who has left for the station. Angry Bullwinkle gives chase to Rod while two sets of cops chase Rod and Bullwinkle around town (great, well done laughs and stunts and pratfalls and such). Rod escapes, Bullwinkle is caught and goes to jail. Meanwhile a lawyer arrives to bequeath Rod ten thousand dollars. A great case of mistaken identity ensues, both Rod and Bullwinkle making claim. In MS, Bullwinkle bends the bars of his cell and escapes for Rod's home where everyone meets up. A multi-floored chase occurs, followed by tight LS's of Bullwinkle getting hit over the head with a vase. Tight LS of a man in a suit running into a room and getting into a steamer trunk; two men get into adjacent trunks as well. In the end Bullwinkle is defeated and sent back to jail while Rod gets the money and the girl. | |
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