Rips and Rushes
5.8
While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.
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Cast
12 people
Hughie Mack
Vernon Rastle
Also in
The Man from Egypt
Mare Nostrum
Jimmy Aubrey
His Lordship
Also in
The Meeting
Worries and Wobbles
Larry Semon
C. Graham Baker
Alice Mann
Girlie
Known for
His Wedding Night
Oh, Doctor!
John Costello
Girlie's Old Man
Also in
The Love of Pierre Larosse
Big Bluffs and Bowling Balls
Earl Montgomery
Also in
Damsels and Dandies
The Cloudhopper
Pietro Aramondo
Also in
Plagues And Puppy Love
Worries and Wobbles
Murray Simberg
Eddie Dunn
Known for
I Shot Jesse James
Joe Rock
Also in
The Whirlwind
Damsels and Dandies
Ann Brody
Italian woman
Also in
The Sin of Nora Moran
Wolf Song
Larry Semon Director
United States release February 5, 1917 · Produced in United States
Production
Vitagraph Company of America
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · February 5, 1917
Theatrical
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