Disappointment cradles Jonas Högberg & Anders Hultqvist in this week's episode of Pod Hard. 1922 isn't a great year for action. Not even the loopy mad-man Douglas Fairbanks is able to save the day with his adaptation of Robin Hood. Some fancy fencing and drawbridge-climbing aside, it's a spectacularly boring movie.
Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd isn't up to par either. Apart from the beautiful finishing brawl in Lloyd's Grandma's Boy there's simply too much plodding plotting going on.
But wait! There is hope! And that hope is signed Max Linder, the French comedy superstar and his parody of Douglas Fairbanks The Three Musketeers - called The Three Must-Get-Theres! Which essentially is a madcap merry-go-round, Mel Brooks-style, only way better.
Linder's hero Dart In Again fights a horses hooves, catches a sword in his hands, dances up stairs, professes his love for a woman mid-fight, loses his breath almost a century before Old Boy made it cool, catches bad guys by the dozen with a lasso and rides in slow motion. This is what it's all about, folks!
"Exempt me sire. I am afeared of women!"
Pod Hard bon bons of 2020
Action Movie History 1939 (Stagecoach)
Action Movie History 1937 (The Prisoner of Zenda)
Action Movie History Michael Curtiz+Errol Flynn Special (GUEST: Alex Rallo)
Action Movie History 1935 (Top Hat)
Action Movie History 1934 (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
Action Movie History 1933 (Keisatsukan)
Action Movie History 1933 (Footlight Parade)
Action Movie History 1933 (King Kong)
Action Movie History 1932 (Scarface)
Action Movie History 1930 (Hell's Angels)
Action Movie History 1929 (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü)
Action Movie History 1928 (Steamboat Bill Jr)
Action Movie History 1927 (Wings)
Action Movie History 1926 (The General)
Action Movie History 1925 (Orochi)
Action Movie History 1924 (Sherlock Jr & Girl Shy)
Action Movie History 1923 (Safety Last & Our Hospitality)
Action Movie History 1921 (The Three Musketeers)
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