"When movies were silent and money talked, a nickel bought an evening's entertainment. Let's enter one of these ancient Nickelettes --" opens this short spoof on silent films. After being reminded to follow good theatre rules, the "Newsreels" play. Here, they're called "Pathetic Newsreels" instead of a "Pathé Newsreels". Get it? ...Okay, next up is, "Where There's Life - There's Hope" starring Rudolph Valentino. These are excerpts from "The Wonderful Chance" (1920) with Mr. Valentino's role enlarged. You can see Rudy trying out some acting bits of business...
Valentino has mastered the "hat tip, head scratch" move. Eugene O'Brien is also identified, but these rummages through old silent films have no real respect for the material; most often, players and films are unidentified fodder for ridicule. After the drama, live entertainment. Then, the second part of the double feature is "You Never Saw Such Sausage" adapted from the play "Salami" by "Fitzugh Lipschitz". This suggested spoof of Ernst Lubitsch's "Salome" resembles neither.
*** The Nickelette (9/21/32) Bert Frank ~ Leo Donnelly, Jack Freeman, Rudolph Valentino, Eugene O'Brien
Valentino has mastered the "hat tip, head scratch" move. Eugene O'Brien is also identified, but these rummages through old silent films have no real respect for the material; most often, players and films are unidentified fodder for ridicule. After the drama, live entertainment. Then, the second part of the double feature is "You Never Saw Such Sausage" adapted from the play "Salami" by "Fitzugh Lipschitz". This suggested spoof of Ernst Lubitsch's "Salome" resembles neither.
*** The Nickelette (9/21/32) Bert Frank ~ Leo Donnelly, Jack Freeman, Rudolph Valentino, Eugene O'Brien