Max wants a divorce
Weitere Titel: Max veut divorcer (F) - Regie: Max Linder - Szenario: Max Linder - Länge: 30 Min. - Interpreten: Max Linder; Francine Larrimore; Marthe Mansfield - Produktion: Essanay - Drehort: Chicago - © 7.3.1917 - UA: 18. März 1917 (New York/ The Strand)
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The second of the Max Linder comedies put out by Essanay shows the versatile Frenchman in the character of a husband, who on his wedding day receives word that an uncle has left him $3.000.000 on condition that he remains a bachelor. After a lot of argument his wife agrees that he shall get a divorce, and after the legacy is safe in hand they will be remarried at once. He is to flirt with a girl, his wife is to catch him at it, have a detective handy, and let that settle it. He hires an apartment, makes a date with a charmer to meet him there, and his wife in disguise is sent in by the agent to take the place of the maid who has suddenly left. An alienist, with a large following of "nuts", has also hired the apartment from another agent. It takes in both sides of the hall, and his offices are away from the living rooms, where the plot is being worked out. The "nuts" come to the doctor, and are "shooed" into another room where their fancies may have free play, and when Linder begins making love to the charmer, and the detective has failed to arrive on schedule time, his wife breaks up his sport, and a young riot results in the doctor's helpers taking them all across the hall, where they are put into the room with the rest of the looney folks. The detective comes, the mixup is straightened out, and the young couple are surprised by a dispatch from the lawyer saying that his first message was an error - it should have been that the nephew to win the legacy should not remain a bachelor. The comedy should be a welcome addition to any program as the slapstick work is not overdone and fits in with the development of the piece. The fly in the amber is the recurrence of that tiresome but apparently everlasting pie in the face incident. (Variety, 23.3.1917)
• Eine Kopie des Films wird verwahrt in: Library of Congress (Washington), Archiva Nationala de Filme (Bucuresti) ─ • Der Film war Teil der Serie "Les Films Max Linder" (TV 1995) (Max veut divorcer/Max läßt sich scheiden, 1916, 22:16)