Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Laugh With Max Linder (1921) Rating: Starring: Max Linder Director: Max Linder Category: Comedy, Classics, Classics Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: Length: 117 mins     Digitally mastered from an original 35mm tinted print In Hollywood, Max Linder wrote, produced, and directed and starred in Seven Years Bad Luck, seen on this DVD complete for the first time since its 1921 released and digitally mastered from an original 35mm tinted print. The hilarious misadventures begin when Max's butler, chasing a maid, breaks an expensive full-length mirror. The butler persuades the cook, who somewhat resembles Max, to stand behind teh frame and be Max's reflection. This gag, developed by Max, has become a classic of film and even television-borrowed by everyone from the Marx Brothers to Abbott and Costello to Red Skelton. In another brilliant sequence, Max flees from the police into a lion's cage, where he proceeds to make friends with the hungry beast. It's the clear inspiration for Charlie Chaplin's very similar scene in The Circus. Seven Years Bad Luck is accompanied by a new small-orchestra score compiled by Robert Israel using authentic period arrangements of silent film music. This DVD also includes four of Max's early short sketches made in France: Troubles Of a Grasswidower, Love's Surprises, Max Takes a Picture and Max Sets The Style. All are digitally mastered from excellent film elements-one of them a hand-colored vintage print-and three are accompanied by Robert Israel at the Fotoplayer, a combination organ/player-piano/sound-effects instrument developed for nickelodeons when these films were new. An excerpt from Be My Wife, Max's second American feature, is another pleasure, and finally, a bonus sequence of "candid" footage showing Max (in costume for Seven Years Bad Luck) clowning around with Maurice Tourneur, another transplanted Frenchman and a premier director of the era. Here indeed is a wonderful treasury of Max Linder, "the man of a million laughs!"