Walter Makes a Movie (1922)

Directed by

Walter Forde, Tom Seymour

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A petty thief steals from a film star and runs from the police. He stumbles into a movie studio where a melodrama is being filmed.

silent-eraplayfullightheartedfast-pacedslapstickchaoticwhimsicalold-fashioned

What happens

Walter Makes a Movie is a British short silent film, directed by Tom Seymour and Walter Forde in 1922. Forde plays a petty thief who steals from film star Pauline Highbrow (Pauline Peters). Pursued by the police he ends up in the Star Film Company's studio during the shooting of her latest melodrama. This film is preserved in the National Film Archive. A version from a 1935 9.5mm home movie release is available to watch on YouTube channel "British Silents". The short is Forde's fifth Zodiac film and is showing the actor "planning and producing a comedy picture". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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