Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

OVERLOOKED FILM: POOL SHARKS (1915)

Presenting W. C. Fields in his first film role!

Directed by Edwin Middleton and featuring Marion West, Larry Westford, and Bud Ross, Pool Sharks is a short, slapstick film starring a 35-year-old Fields, fresh from vaudeville.  It's a cute film but does little to preview the Fields persona later audiences have come to love.  Rivals vie over a pretty girl, a bit of Three Stooges-esque action about two minutes in, and a stop-motion pool game to settle their differences with the lady in question on the warpath combine to make a smile-worthy (but not a laugh-out-loud) effort.

There are worse ways to spend eight minutes.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi78XDvUXdk

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