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Weitere Titel: Max Linders Doppelgänger (CH)/ Max's Double (UK, USA) - Szenario: Max Linder - Länge: 765m - s/w - Interpret: Max Linder {Max & Morand} - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 7002/Febr.15 - Drehzeit: vor Aug. 1914 - UA: 5. April 1915 (Kristiana [Oslo]/ Bio-Kino) — Weitere Auff.: 21.5.15 (Paris/Ciné Max Linder)
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Here is a perfectly splendid farce, conceived in the most novel manner and carried out with the greatest ingenuity by the producer and with irresistible humour by the inimitable Max. We have called Max inimitable, but the whole object of his delightful film is to prove that he can be most accurately and convincingly imitated - if only by himself. For Max in this picture plays a dual role, appearing both as himself and as his own unscrupulous double, who sees in his extraordinary likeness to the famous actor an excellent opening for profitable adventure. This is the basis upon which the Box and Cox plot of the film is founded, and the resulting situations are very nearly as thrilling as they are funny. The story moves at an almost delirious speed, and is so well worked up that after a time the mystified spectator loses count and is unable to say precisely which is the real Max Linder - until the problem is definitely solved by a row of solemn judges in the Law Courts. In the scenes where both Max and his double appear upon the screen at the same moment double photography is employed with astonishing success. It is an old enough effect, of course, but we must confess that we cannot remember to have seen it handled more skilfully. Even for those who are experienced in the trickery of the camera it will be a little difficult to say exactly how some of the scenes are done. Finally, mention should be made of an exceedingly sensational duel in the dark which figures in the film. It is a really exciting incident which would almost justify one in describing "Max's Double" as a dramatic farce. That it makes a really enthralling entertainment no one who sees the picture will deny. (The Bioscope, 25.2.1915)