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3/10
They forgot to make this one funny.
planktonrules18 January 2022
"Gentlemen of the Bar" is a short film from Educational Pictures starring Ernest Truex. Truex plays Mr. Hemingway, a lawyer who's on hard times and who has just had his furniture repossessed. However, when Mrs. Van Buren arrives and wants him to get her a divorce, his prospects SEEM to be improving. However, Mrs. Van Buren is NOT what she seems to be and there's an unethical lawyer (can you imagine?!?!) behind some sort of scheme. What is how and how it plays out is for you to see.

This is a short comedy with one important problem....it forgot to be funny. As a result, the short is a bit tedious and probably won't appeal to the average viewer.
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5/10
Al Christie Should Have Stuck To Producing
boblipton6 December 2021
Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the hall gets the husband. Each must produce evidence of infidelity, which they do .... of their clients.

It's an amusing idea, and Truex is a performer who always entertains me, but Al Christie directed this as well as producing it, and demonstrates why he should have stuck to producing. It's such a symmetric piece, with lots of door-slamming farce played at too slow a speed and little in the way of individual humor.
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