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Weitere Titel: Max Sees Life (UK)/ Max hits the high spots (USA) - Szenario: (Armand Massard) - Lไnge: 575m - s/w - Interpret: Max Linder - Produktion: Path้ Fr่res - Katalog-Nr.: 7070/April 15 - Drehzeit: vor Aug. 1914 - UA: 18. Dezember 1914 (Paris/ Cin้ Max Linder)
Mr. Max Linder is responsible for an extraordinarily large number of good comedy subjects in the course of a year, and on occasion he excels himself in a film offering more than the usual scope for his talents. This is what has happened in "Max Sees Life," issued by Messrs. Path้ as a two-reel exclusive. Even the hardened expert will shudder and wonder how it was done when he sees some of the hairbreadth escapades through which Max passes in this film. The subject opens by showing Max in a very unfamiliar role, that of a young man who it too shy to make any progress in paying addresses to desirable members of the fair sex. To overcome this shyness, Max's uncle takes him to a night club, where there is a tango supper and a galaxy of gilded beauty. In this atmosphere Max soon loses his bashfulness. Being somewhat "elevated" by champagne, Max and his uncle take possession of a taxi-cab with intent to drive themselves home. They are hailed by a sedate, elderly couple, and accept them as fares to the Gare du Nord. It is a very adventurous journey, and the luggage is the cause of much trouble. Collisions with other vehicles and all sorts of thrills end in the car being driven over the edge of a pit and wrecked. We need hardly say that this is not the end of Max; he and his companions crawl out from the wreckage quite happily, and Max is certainly entitled to say that he has seen life this time, if never before. There can be no doubt about the success of this lively and exciting film. (The Bioscope, 8.4.1915)