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Following a full-restoration from an Internegative along with the sound discs in 2011,this part talkie was released on Netflix in 2021 For some reason,the film's silent portion is 100% silent,no accompianing music, making it a hard watch. The only parts that kept interested to keep watching were the sound bits, which were a talkie prologue and several songs. What i have to praise is the restoration. For something that is 90 years old,it's in mint condition,and if the film had not been as good looking as it is,i would've watched just the sound portions. There's some good jokes sprinkled in throughout the silent parts. it would be a 7 if it had the accompianing music.

Fridof Rhudin is a weird inventor with a pet rat. He has just invented a machine that will control an airplane from the ground. His buddy, Sven Garbo, is off on a vacation with daughter of the colonel of the rgiment he has just been conscripted into. He sends Rhudin with a note asking for a few days leave before being checked in. Rhudin winds up taking his place, courting the girl who runs the canteen and, of course, having to fly an airplane, although he doesn't know how.

The Pat & Patachon comedies aside, I don't usually associate Swedish movies with comedies, and despite its efforts, this doesn't strike me as a particularly funny one. The story arc is predictable, and the swooping airplane aside, there isn't much going on that's funny. It's one of those goat-glanded films, with Rhudin making a speech at the start that it was supposed to be Sweden's first takie, but he's no good at that. Afterwards, there are three or four musical numbers with the sound on, and that's it. Rhudin survived the transition into sound. His last movie was in 1934, and he died in 1935 at the age of 39.