Talking Keaton Waiter! This lobster has one claw!
- Sometimes they lose it in a fight.
- Why didn't you bring a winner?
Hotel Trouble was the first non-silent Keaton movie I ever saw. It was funny to hear his voice and realize that he was different from my own. But let's talk about the movie.
The idea is not bad, although it does not shine with originality (however, in the thirties it may have shone?). Keaton is already in the usual role of a loser named Reggie. Not a romantic loser, but some misnomer. He is most embarrassed by his lack of experience with women. And for his role as a donjouan, it's like death. A couple of punctures, and now Angie is no longer interested in him! Then Jeffrey has a brilliant plan: hire a woman of Balzac age and not the most difficult behavior, send them from Reggie to the hotel, and then let the curious Angie. Since that madam has enough experience, she will find something to keep the guy busy, and we can only hope that Angie shows up at the right time. So that the knave does not confuse anything, Jeffrey even dictates to him a step-by-step plan of seduction.
And then when you help her take off the manto...
- What to remove?
- Manto.
- Monto?
- Manto!
- Manto?
- Write the cloak! . << / i>
Of course, this is not how things really work. It's even better! Because for a short rainy night, Reggie has time to make out with a bunch of pretty ladies, and then run from the angry husband of one of them, armed with a gun. After this, of course, it remains only to believe in its animal magnetism!
The comedy isn't as funny as "Shipping Locomotive General," but about the level of "Sherlock Jr." The funniest thing begins at the hotel: all this commotion, a change of partners, a stunned porter ... In fact, it begs to make a play "based on motives." I think that would be very funny. Oh, by the way. A rather frivolous comedy for the thirties, I somehow expected more from the then censorship.