Le soulier trop petit
Weitere Titel: Max hat neue Stiefel an (D, Ö)/ When the shoe pinches (UK)/ Max's feet are pinched (USA) - Länge: 155m - s/w - Interpret: Max Linder - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 3952/Nov.10 - UA: 29. Oktober 1910 (Österreich, Auff. in „Bioskop Theater Annenhof“/Graz am 19.11.1910) — Weitere Auff.: 25.1.11 (Rouen/ Théâtre Omnia)
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Max will seiner Braut gefallen und kauft sich ein Paar eleganter Schuhe; aber nicht zu seiner Freude, denn auf halbem Wege muß er den einen Schuh ausziehen um seine Zehen von dem Druck zu befreien. Er zieht ihn erst wieder im Hause seiner Braut an. Während des Essens zieht Max, der wieder schreckliche Qualen erleidet, die Stiefel aus. Unglücklicherweise nimmt ein Hund den Schuh fort. Nach dem Essen begibt sich der junge Mann in den Salon, den unbeschuhten Fuß soviel wie möglich verbergend. Plötzlich kommt der Hund mit dem Schuh in der Schnauze wieder. Es entsteht zwischen ihm und dem Hunde um den Besitz des Stiefels eine wüste Balgerei, in deren Verlaufe Max auf die Straße gesetzt wird. (Der deutsche Lichtbildtheater-Besitzer, 1.12.1910)
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Max Linder has worked nearly the same idea before, but he is always so much of a delight and so unconsciously original and graceful in his movements that the story takes on a new appearance. He buys a pair of tight shoes and visits his best girl at her home, where he takes off his shoe at the table and a dog runs away with it. His troubles end in a smash-up, which is forgiven because it is Max Linder. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, 22.3.1911)
• Eine Kopie des Films wird verwahrt in: Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona), George Eastman House (Rochester), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Cinémathèque Québecoise (Montreal)
Weitere Filmbeschreibungen/Kritiken:
Max has become engaged to a charming girl, and he adorns himself with unusual care when dressing for dinner. His shoes are the only part of his attire with which he is not satisfied, and on his way to his fiancée's house, he buys another pair. Unfortunately his new acquisitions are a trifle tight, and he suffers some excruciating agony. At dinner, things are scarcely better, and Max gently slips one shoe off under the table, and then devotes himself to his fair companion. Unluckily, Brisk, the pet poodle of the house, walks in, and picking up the shoe, trots away with it. Max finds that his shoe has vanished, and not knowing what else to do, he snatches up a wine basket and shuffles into the drawing room. A few painful moments elapse, and then the dog appears with the shoe in his mouth. Max tries to take it from him, but Brisk refuses to part with his find. Max's shoeless condition is observed by his companions, and he is obliged to admit his vanity, which ends in his fiancée giving him his dismissal. (The Bioscope, Nov. 10th 1910)