André Deed

André Deed in the persona of a juvenile Boireau, has two ambitions: to get along with pretty schoolgirl Valentina Frascaroli and to punch his teacher in the head. The latter gets him tossed in the school's dungeon.

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Directed by André Deed.

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Another nice Christmas comedy, produced by Itala Films, with André Deed in his famous Cretinetti character.

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Andre Deed was a leading player in short Italian comedies in this period under the character name of Cretinetti, and Italian slapstick was much rougher and far more bone-breaking than anything Americans would regularly view. In this one, he is sewing his pants until his fiancée appears with his prospective father-in-law, so he puts his pants on, only to discover that the needle is still in the pants and takes every chance to stick him painfully.

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Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....

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Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Italian slapstick, which makes your typical Keystone slapstick look like tea time at the Ritz. Raw, bone-breaking slapstick.

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Short slapstick comedy set in a hotel.

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A quarrel in a club room leads to a duel between two of the characters. Honor is satisfied by the usual "continental scratch" and the affair ends. Foolshead, however, has been a witness of the combat and is smitten with the duel fever, so a series of highly amusing scenes are witnessed in which Foolshead endeavors to get somebody to fight with him. Finally he gets a good beating for his pains, assaults the police and is arrested.

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The set-up here is that Cretinetti has been invited to a friend's wedding and dressed up in a fine new outfit, which so impresses every woman he sees that they wind up pursuing him en masse -- along with a couple of men.

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The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however by a gang of criminals, led by a woman named Mado, who wish to get the instructions for building the mechanical man. The criminals are captured before they are able to get them and are brought to trial and condemned. Mado manages to escape and kidnaps the scientist's niece whom she forces to give her the instructions which she uses to build a mechanical man.

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Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesque consort. But just on the day of his wedding, he reads a notice on the wall explaining how to behave in the case of an enemy air raid. The fear that grips him makes him even too literal in implementing safety indications, causing trouble and accidents that will not only stop him from enjoying his first marital night, but will even cause the collapse of the whole house. In the end, the gendarmes go to him with a conscription notice and take him away under coercion, under the appalled gaze of his new bride.

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Andre Deed loves his cigars, but not everyone does. He heads off to a tea social, where the hostess disapproves of tobacco. There he keeps lighting up, then has to put out the cigars in various unlikely places.

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Boireau, apprentice mason, and a coalman fight it out for the affections of the cook.

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Boireau makes a mess, gets pushed around and ends up a gingerbread man.

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Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and shoots a fish down from the sky...

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Andre Deed sees Valentina Frascaroli shoot a man who annoys her in the street and is enchanted. He decides the way to win her affection is to swap clothes with the guy who cleans his apartment, and swagger about the cheap Montmartre saloons. Miss Frascaroli likes it, but the apaches who make up her friends don't, and proceed to torment the lovestruck fellow.

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A pasha invites a photographer to his harem. A belly dancer performs for him, and then seduces him, getting him into trouble There are two versions of this film, one with a fully clothed dancer, and a second where she is scantily dressed.

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At a prize fight, Deed gets into a fight of his own with two other spectators and gets thrown out. He goes to a boxing instructor, and after one lesson, he sets out for revenge.

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Boireau's flamboyant military costume gets stuck everywhere he goes.

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André Deed in the persona of a juvenile Boireau, has two ambitions: to get along with pretty schoolgirl Valentina Frascaroli and to punch his teacher in the head. The latter gets him tossed in the school's dungeon.

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Directed by André Deed.

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Escamillo harbours a tapeworm in his stomach – a particularly demanding one at that. This parasite, drawn by the enticing smell of every mouthful, leaps out of its host’s mouth, pounces on its prey and carries it off to its lair to devour it. To rid himself of this troublesome guest, Escamillo goes to see an expert doctor, who prescribes some pills. However, whilst Escamillo is asleep, the parasite, driven by its insatiable hunger, takes a stroll through the dining room.

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Another nice Christmas comedy, produced by Itala Films, with André Deed in his famous Cretinetti character.

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Moving Cretinetti style: a tornado of furniture.

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Italian short comedy

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Short comedy in which Gribouille (Cretinetti) loses his two lovers to two gentlemen.

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Andre Deed was a leading player in short Italian comedies in this period under the character name of Cretinetti, and Italian slapstick was much rougher and far more bone-breaking than anything Americans would regularly view. In this one, he is sewing his pants until his fiancée appears with his prospective father-in-law, so he puts his pants on, only to discover that the needle is still in the pants and takes every chance to stick him painfully.

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Cretinetti tries to bring a gift to his sweetheart. He loses the flowers. The tableware set breaks into pieces. Finally he buys a piano, but in the great chaos he is stuffed inside it.

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Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....

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Cretinetti's cab runs out of gas and ends up blocking traffic.

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Cretinetti wakes up in the middle of his sleep and finds himself in outlandish situations, walking through a mirror and falling through the roof.

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Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Italian slapstick, which makes your typical Keystone slapstick look like tea time at the Ritz. Raw, bone-breaking slapstick.

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Comedy from a series about the character Cretinetti. He is organizing a Christmas party but it ends up being a total mess. He buys a Christmas tree, but the tree is so big that he can hardly transport it to the party. As he runs around the city with the tree he creates one disaster after another.

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Short slapstick comedy set in a hotel.

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Cretinetti meddles with things and lands into trouble every time, having his head forged on an anvil and falling into a pit on a construction site.

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Cretinetti fails as an amateur thief.

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André Deed is tired of being beat up, so a strong man has no trouble selling him one of the springs with handles at either end. When I was a kid, exercise mavens like Jack Lalanne would sell them, only made out of rubber. Anyway, Deed alternates exercising with this device and getting beat up on by almost everyone for the length of this one-reel comedy.

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