Shivering Shakespeare

1929
20min

PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb

TU PUNTUACIÓN

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaThe gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis? (1924). Things go from bad to worse when the neighb... Leer todoThe gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis? (1924). Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow... Leer todoThe gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis? (1924). Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.

Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro

PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb

6,8/10

172

TU PUNTUACIÓN

Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro

Imágenes

Reparto principal50

Editar

Norman 'Chubby' Chaney

Chubby
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)
…

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Farina
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)
…

Jackie Cooper

Jackie
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Mary Ann Jackson

Mary Ann
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)
…

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Wheezer
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Donald Haines

Donny
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Edith Fellows

Girls Scared of Elephant
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Gordon Thorpe

Effeminate boy
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Douglas Greer

Turkey Egg, curtain pulller
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

June Branon

Blonde Girl

Pete the Dog

Pete

Fred Rollins

Boy in Audience

Herman Tutt

Spy who arrests Jackie

George Verricco

Boy in Audience

Johnny Aber

Tough Kid
(sin acreditar)

Georgie Billings

Shepard
(sin acreditar)

Allan Cavan

Man who 'resents it'
(sin acreditar)

Dorothy Coburn

Pie Seller
(sin acreditar)

Más del estilo

7,3

The First Seven Years

7,1

6,5

6,7

7,2

7,7

6,8

6,1

7,5

6,8

7,9

7,4

Argumento

Editar

¿Sabías que...?

Editar

Curiosidades
At the beginning of the play being performed by "The Pupils of B. Grade, Liberty School", the announcement poster notes that "The Gladiator's Dilemma" was authored by "Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy" (apparently the wife of Kennedy the Cop who is also involved in the production) "with acknowledgement of excerpts from Shakespeare, Confucius, Aristophanes, Bacon, Cervantes and Irwin S. Cobb". The inclusion of Cobb (1876-1944, whose first name in reality is spelled "Irvin"), the only living writer in the list and the only one not usually associated with "great literature", is obviously meant as a contemporary joke.

Citas
Nero's Spy: [the kids are completely unprepared, constantly needing offstage prompting] The oriental girls do their ori-... their wild, pag-... , pagan dance, to make... to make...
Kennedy the Cop: [for once, Kennedy upstages his wife giving a joke prompt from the wings] To make whoopee!
Nero's Spy: [with renewed confidence] To make whoopee!
Jackie: Forsooth!... Nero was in a terrible rage today...
Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy: [from offstage] And well may...
Jackie: And well may we all tremble in our pants.
Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy: [from offstage] *Togas.*
Jackie: Well, anyway, he has used up all his Christian prisoners, and has no more to feed the lions.

Conexiones
Featured in Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse (1984)

Banda sonora
The Blue Danube
(uncredited)
Music by Johann Strauss

Reseñas de usuarios12

Comentarios

Reseña destacada

Poor Short

Shivering Shakespeare (1930)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Kennedy the Cop's wife puts on a play of "Quo Vadis" and wouldn't you know that she casts the gang to major parts. The first night of the play kicks off and naturally the kids begin to forget their lines and more bad stuff happens, which all leads to a big pie fight. Once again it seems the screenwriter didn't even try to make this thing funny. I'm sitting and watching this short and kept asking myself where it was trying to gain comedy from. From the forgotten lines? This didn't work. From the curtains falling at the wrong time? Perhaps this was suppose to be funny but it's not. Is the pie fight suppose to be funny? Well, I guess it is but I've yet to watch one that has made me laugh. I'm only familiar with the later day shorts and some of the silents but I'm finding those so much better than these early sound ones. Hopefully I'll run into some better ones soon.