Victime du quinquina (Titel Blatt)

Victime du quinquina

Weitere Titel: Max als Opfer des Bordeaux-Weines (D, Ö)/ Max and His Prescription (UK)/ Max takes Tonics (USA) - Regie: (Max Linder) - Szenario: Maurice Delamare - Länge: 395m - s/w, teilweise viragiert - 11 UT - Interpreten: Max Linder; Gabrielle Lange {Frau des Generals} - Produktion: Pathé Frères - Katalog-Nr.: 4913/Jan.12 - UA: 15. Dezember 1911 (Paris/ Le Cirque d’Hiver) — Weitere Auff.: 29.12.11 (Wien/Kino-Theater); 27.1.12 (Berlin/U.T.-Unter den Linden)

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[...] dann folgte eine Humoreske mit Max Linder, dem Unverbesserlichen. Das Publikum amüsierte sich weidlich, wie Max an den Folgen eines falsch angewendeten Rezepts in die verzwickteste Lage kommt und nach einer Reihe toller Verwechslungen von seinen bisherigen Rettern entlarvt und durchgeprügelt wird. Christian Arp. (Erste Internationale Film-Zeitung, 7.6.1913)

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This farce picture is well worked out and contains a good many laughs. Max Linder rather overdoes the drunk act, but that is only to be expected, and for a low-comedy idea the producer has turned out a film that will be appreciated by many spectators. Max finds himself in need of a tonic after an illness, and the doctor prescribes a Bordeaux wineglassful of wine three times a day. One proves to be enough, however. The servant finds a glass marked "souvenir of the Bordeaux," and Max takes that full, the glass holding about a quart. Then he starts out on a marvellous series of adventures. At every turn he insults people and they challenge him, an exchange of cards always taking place. It so happens that the invalid gets the cards of three important personages. In turn he meets three gendarmes, each of whom, impressed by the name on a card, takes him to a different house. He is always in the end thrown through a window, and being ejected from the last of the three houses he falls upon the heads of the three gendarmes to whom he has given cards. These three angry ones produce the pasteboards, find that they have been humbugged and proceed to handle Max with much vigor. Max's evolutions during his "jag" are many and laughable, and the old idea of burlesquing the actions of the gendarme is also used with good effect. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, 17.7.1912)

Anmerkung: Bei dem Autor des Films, von Maud Linder als J. Delamare und von Henri Bousquet als L. Delamarre angegeben, dürfte es sich tatsächlich um M. (Maurice) Delamare handeln. Bousquet nennt als weitere Mitspieler Jacques Vandenne und Georges Gorby. Nach Sichtung des Films konnte dies nicht bestätigt werden. ― [Note: The author of the film is named J. Delamare by Maud Linder and L. Delamarre by Henri Bousquet, but should probably be M. (=Maurice) Delamare. Bousquet also mentiones Jacques Vandenne and Georges Gorby as part of the cast. After watching the film, this could not be verified.]

Max als Opfer des Tokaier Weins ist einfach glänzend. Er hat die ihm ärztlich verordnete Dosis dieses an sich recht wohltätigen, im Uebermasse aber nicht ungefährlichen Trankes zu stark genommen, wird beschwipst und begibt sich voller Unternehmungslust auf eine nächtliche Vergnügungsfahrt. Diese trägt ihm etliche Renkontres und Duellforderungen ein, und infolge Verwechslung der verschiedenen Karten entsteht ein so lustiges, wirres Durcheinander, dass bei dessen Anblick kein Auge trocken bleiben kann. ... (Der Kinematograph Nr.264, 17.1.1912)

The play opens with a picture of Max consulting his physician. The doctor gives him a tonic wine, and tells him to take a wine-glassful every day. On his return home Max quickly empties the bottle. After that he feels much happier. He changes rapidly into his evening clothes, and marches off to take a taxi. But a gentleman opens the opposite door of the taxi at the same moment. Who is to give way? Max, with drunken obstinacy, refuses, and an exchange of cards takes place. On the one Max receives is inscribed „John Andy-Cuff, Commissioner of Police.“ The taxi having departed, Max makes for a gay restaurant, where he encounters a young beauty. His insinuating manners lead up to other challenges, one from General Snobsky, of the War Office, and the other from the Marquis de Salvador, of the Elbanian Embassy. Max stuffs the cards into his pocket, and departs homewards. But home is not easily found, and we find Max leaning against a lamp post, when a policeman orders him to move on. Max requests him to dive into his pockets for a card. The man finds the Police Commissioner's, and his gruff attitude disappearing he lovingly carries Max to the address given. Here he leaves him, Max being ultimately thrown out by the Commissioner. A second time an agent of the law comes to Max's assistance. He receives the Ambassador's card, and full of solicitude, gently conveys Max to his address. Once more Max finds himself in the street. Again he is picked up by a constable, who gets the General's card. A third time is Max gently lifted into a policeman's arms and left in safety. He is thrown out of the window, to fall at the feet of the three constables, who have met. Each claims him as his special charge, and the cards being produced, and found to be all different, Max feels the full strength of the arm of the law. (The Bioscope, Jan. 4^th 1912)