STOLEN GOODS - DVD-JOHN WAYNE: IN COLOUR

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• Release Year: 1924
• Genre: Short, Comedy
• Plot: I'm afraid I'll have to disagree respectfully with a previous IMDb commentator who doesn't think "Stolen Goods," from Charley Chase's early Jimmy Jump series, proceeds from much in the way of the grotesque or the fantastic; it's slightly unusual premise is that Charley gets hired at a department store because the owner's kleptomaniac daughter has fallen for him. I also have to disagree about the lack of subtext -- based solely on a very funny sequence that seems to be about a very bashful, giggly man who ends up trying to buy some women's lingerie.The scenes of the impossibly crowded department store prefigure when this concept will be milked more in Chase's later comedy "Fluttering Hearts," and the even later Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts comedy he directed, "Bargain of the Century." The construction isn't as complex and fine-tuned as in some other Chase comedies, but that does leave room for many fun, kooky gags around the "car-crash" at the beginning and the department store, and the central closing gag at the hits home really well and is set-up perfectly. Maybe it's the influence of director Leo McCarey which contributes to the added crazy, gaggy feeling of parts of this, but of course he is good match fro Chase's style.
• Cast: Charley Chase, Marie Mosquini, Sidney D'Albrook
• Director: Leo McCarey
• Runtime: 10 min
• Media Format: movie