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Weitere Titel: Nach dem glücklich bestandenen Abiturienten Examen (D, Ö)/ A Student on the Spree (UK)/ On a racket (USA) - Regie: (Louis Gasnier) - Szenario: Max Linder - Länge: 185m - s/w, teilweise viragiert - 4 UT - Interpret: Max Linder {Max} - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 3225/Dez.09 - Auff.: 21. November 1909 (Graz/ Bioskop Theater Annenhof) — Weitere Auff.: 22.12.09 (Herne/ Kinematoscope)

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Max hat sein Examen glücklich bestanden und wird danach von seinen Eltern mit Geld und Schmeicheleien dermaßen überhäuft, dass er sich entschließt den feierlichen Tag in Gegenwart eines Freundes und zweier Schönen mit Champagner zu feiern. Das Fest verläuft in der üblichen heiteren Weise. Unser Freund begeht tausend Torheiten, nach denen ihn seine reichlich verwirrten Gedanken und seine taumelnden Füsse nach der elterlichen Wochnung führen. Er kommt mit vieler Mühe nach dem Speisezimmer, wo ein Mahl für ihn bereit steht. Aber Max kann die Gegenstände nicht mehr unterscheiden. Er hält das Fenster für einen Schrank und befördert seine Sachen alle auf die Strasse und den gedeckten Tisch für ein Bett, auf welchem er sich schlafen legt. Auf das Geräusch des zerbrechenden Porzellans hin kommen die Eltern und pflegen den Sohn wie es dieser Zustand erfordert. (Katalog Pathé, 1909)

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The theme of this picture farce is not of an elevating character, but is is acted with inimitable humor by a comedian formerly a popular favorite in Pathe films, but whose face has been a long time absent, and it is therefore more than welcome. A young man has just received his degree from college, and his delighted father gives him a pocketful of money, and tells him to go out for a celebration. The youth sets out with three companions, a young man and two women, and they try to consume all the wine in Maxim's, with the result that the youth is taken home a helpless "drunk." In the dining room of his home he hangs his clothes out of the window, and goes to sleep on the dinner table, falling to the floor, where he is found by his astonished parents. It is not the things done in the picture that causes laughter, but the droll way in which this excellent comedian does them that counts. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, 22.1.1910)

Mr. Max Linder has himself evolved this playful little incident from the inner recesses of his own brain. As a play it is slight, but as a piece of merriment it would hold its own, we think, against the most formidably humorous rival. Briefly, it depicts the escapades of a youthful 'varsity man whose parents supply him with bountiful rewards of money when he gets his degree. The „spree“ in which he indulges with these unwise gifts is of the maddest description - as friends of Mr. Linder can imagine - and the adventure ends with discovery by the parents of their son sleeping on the breakfast table with his once glossy head in a soup tureen. (The Bioscope, Dec. 2^nd 1909)

„On a Racket“ is a comedy subject that doesn't go very far in the laugh-producing line. A young man receives his degree. His father is so pleased he loads the son down with money and tells him to go the limit. The boy takes on his chum and a couple of ladies fair and they proceed to „do the town.“ He gets pretty well soused up without producing anything very funny in the process. He finally becomes so bad that he has to be carried home. His chum dumps him in the hall of his home and leaves. The souse gets into the dining room and mistaking the table for his bed goes to sleep. He puts his head down in a bowl of some mushy stuff satisfactorily. Walt. (Variety, Jan. 22^nd 1910)