Stage Fright [Our Gang Little Rascals 1923]
Channel: AudioBooks Vs Movies
Date: 2021-12-16

Stage Fright is the 18th Our Gang short subject comedy released. The series (later known as The Little Rascals) was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944.

A con artist calling himself Prince Dalmar El Faro comes to Greenpoint
telling everyone who will listen to him about the starving Trombonians
of his native country. He says his countrymen "do not ask for charity -
all they want is money." Local authoress Fawn Ocheltree
decides to help raise the money by writing a play set in Ancient Rome
to be played by the kids. The gang is not interested, but their mothers
press them into it. It's after their bedtime, and they are trying to
recite lines they do not understand. Mickey giggles as Little Mary, playing a slave girl, begs for mercy from Joe Cobb playing Nero. Ernie and Farina playing captured cannibals start yawning as does the entire audience. Jackie enters from the wrong side of the stage, and an effect showing Mickey supposedly on horseback falls apart. Jackie
livens things up by tying firecrackers to the tail of a cow being posed
as a bull. The resulting fracas leads to a box of fireworks going off
as everyone runs for the hills, bringing the whole scam to a halt.