Max victime de la main qui étreint (Titel Blatt)

Max victime de la main qui étreint

Weitere Titel: Max and the clutching hand (UK) - Regie: (Max Linder) - Szenario: Max Linder - Länge: 355m - s/w - Interpret: Max Linder - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 7729/Okt.16 - Sondervorführung: 2./3.10.1916 («Trade show») - Auff.: 17. November 1916 (Rotterdam/ Tivoli Bioscope) — Weitere Auff.: 26.1.17 (Paris/Ciné Max Linder)

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Delightful Max Linder reissue [sic.]* Max and his fiancée enjoy winter sports in the Alps, ski-ing, skating, snowballing, mountaineering. Max imagines he is a great crime detector; bets his prospective father-in-law he will catch a master criminal known as "Clutching Hand." He has some fine chances of doing this, but muddles them all until he finally discovers the "Clutching Hand" is his sweetheart playing a series of hoaxes on him. (The Bioscope, 4.1.1917)

Anmerkung: Der Film war in Frankreich ursprünglich für den 20.10.16 avisiert. Selbst für die Zeitgenossen war es nicht einfach, neue Filme von Wiederaufführungen zu unterscheiden. Während dieser Film sicherlich kein «reissue», wie BIO schreibt, ist, wurden andererseits (zumindest in Großbritanien) einige Wiederaufführungen, mit geändertem Titel, von Pathé als neue Filme ausgegeben: «Messrs. Pathé's manager states that none of the above [Max, maître d'hotel; Max joue le drame; etc.] are re-issues, but were filmed under the clever comedian's personal superintendence during the time he was on leave from active service in France during the war.(BIO,21.6.17)» ― [Note: Initially scheduled for release in France on Oct. 20^th 1916. — Apparently even Linder’s contemporaries found it difficult to distinguish between new, and re-released films. Whereas this film certainly isn’t a re-release, as "The Bioscope" claimed, there were other cases, in which older films, having been given new titles, were sold as new ones: «Messrs. Pathé's manager states that none of the above [e.g.: Max, maître d'hotel; Max joue le drame; etc.] are re-issues, but were filmed under the clever comedian's personal superintendence during the time he was on leave from active service in France during the war. (The Bioscope, June 21^st 1917)»]