Mickey’s Thrill Hunters (1931)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 1931-09-19
Director: Albert Herman
Writers: Fontaine Fox
Language: English
Stars: Mickey Rooney , Frank Alexander , Billy Barty , Spencer Bell , Delia Bogard , Douglas Fox , Jimmy Robinson , Marvin Stephens
Runtime: 18 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Mickey's Thrill Hunters , Mickey's Thrill Hunters (United States of America)
Plot: Mickey Maguire and his cohort decide to make money for themselves. They start out by offering to wash people's car windshields. From there, it's an easy step to washing windows in what appears to be a thirty-story skyscraper. Just don't look down!Since this series and this movie in particular, is based on Fontaine Fox' TOONERVILLE TROLLEY comic strip, and that is set in a sleepy exurban village at the end of the commuter lines, I was wondering how they might justify this towering skyscraper and similar buildings in the distance. They never did, of course. They simpy chose the same sort of thrill-comedy locations in downtown Los Angeles that movie comics had been using for a dozen years at this point, building the sort of safety equipment that did some good in the event of a real fall, and let 'er rip.The audience of the era, having seen Harold Lloyd do this sort of thing a dozen times, would feel simultaneously frightened for the young actors and confident that nothing would happen to them.It's too bad it's not interestingly performed.
IMDB:tt0411658