Alas, Max has a neurosis about getting wet, so his fiancée throws him over: she tosses her engagement ring on a ribbon into the ocean and announces that if Max wants to get her back, he must produce the ring and ribbon.
Max is particularly good playing a bit of a maniac, and he is at his most amusing here, first with his not terribly unusual distaste for the ocean, then with his attempts to resign himself to the horrible stuff and finally with the concluding gag.
Before the rise of Charlie Chaplin, Max Linder was the world's most successful movie comic and one of the few people that Chaplin cited as an influence on himself. In a career that ran from 1905 through 1924, he rang most of the comic changes between Pierrot and pure slapstick. A necessary -- and entertaining -- performer for anyone interested in the history of movies.
Max is particularly good playing a bit of a maniac, and he is at his most amusing here, first with his not terribly unusual distaste for the ocean, then with his attempts to resign himself to the horrible stuff and finally with the concluding gag.
Before the rise of Charlie Chaplin, Max Linder was the world's most successful movie comic and one of the few people that Chaplin cited as an influence on himself. In a career that ran from 1905 through 1924, he rang most of the comic changes between Pierrot and pure slapstick. A necessary -- and entertaining -- performer for anyone interested in the history of movies.