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Laugh with
Max Linder
(1912-1921)

Contents: Troubles of a Grasswidower (1912), Love’s Surprises (1913), Max Takes a Picture (1913), Max Sets the Style (1914), Seven Years’ Bad Luck (1921) and Be My Wife (1921) [exerpts].

Film Preservation Associates
2003 DVD edition

Laugh with Max Linder (1912-1921), color-toned black & white, 117 minutes total, not rated, including Troubles of a Grasswidower (1912), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, Love’s Surprises (1913), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Max Takes a Picture (1913), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Max Sets the Style (1914), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Seven Years’ Bad Luck (1921), black & white, 62 minutes, not rated, and Be My Wife (1921) [excerpts], black & white, 13 minutes, not rated.

Film Preservation Associates, distributed by Image Entertainment, ID0508DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-05082-0.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 11 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $24.99.
Release date: 23 September 2003.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 6 / audio: 9 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

Home video producer David Shepard has released this DVD collection of Max Linder comedies including a complete presentation of Seven Years’ Bad Luck (1921), the French shorts Troubles of a Grasswidower (1912), Love’s Surprises (1913), Max Takes a Picture (1913) and Max Sets the Style (1914), and exerpts from Be My Wife (1921).

The disc features small-orchestra musical accompaniment arranged, composed and conducted by Robert Israel, and performed on period instruments.

Supplementary material includes footage of Max boxing with director Maurice Tourneur (3 minutes).

Not being transferred from the highest-quality prints, the collection is buoyed by the excellent musical accompaniment.

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