Mack Sennett Comedies
2 films on HibingeTV
American film production company founded by Mack Sennett after he left Keystone. Operating through the 1920s, it produced the two-reel and feature comedies that defined the Sennett style, including The Extra Girl (1923) and The Daredevil (1923), starring Mabel Normand and Ben Turpin. The company distributed through Associated Exhibitors and later Pathé, and was the last producing home of Sennett's brand of slapstick before he moved to Educational and then Columbia in the sound era.
Produced
Comedy, Silent
A Mack Sennett two-reel comedy built around Ben Turpin and his famous cross-eyed double take. Turpin plays a hapless suitor who competes with Harry Gribbon for the girl, played by Madeline Hurlock, and stumbles through the kind of physical chaos Sennett's studio was known for, with Del Lord directing the mayhem. The surviving version is abridged but keeps the core gags and gives a clean sample of Sennett's short-form style at its peak. Like the other 1923 releases, the film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019.
Comedy · Silent · Short
The Daredevil
1923 - Comedy
Comedy, Silent
Mabel Normand stars as Sue Graham, a small-town girl who wins a fake screen test and heads to Hollywood to become a star, only to find herself working as an extra and a wardrobe assistant while the studio tries to pry her away from her sweetheart back home. The picture balances comic set pieces, including a runaway lion and a chaotic fashion-show sequence, with a behind-the-scenes look at a working studio lot. Mack Sennett produced through his own company, F. Richard Jones directed, and Normand, one of the biggest comediennes of the silent era, gets to play both slapstick and pathos. The film was released by Associated Exhibitors and is one of Normand's surviving features. Its copyright expired at the end of its first term, and it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019.
Comedy · Silent
The Extra Girl
1923 - Comedy