Professor James Jump hopes to strike it rich with his invention of a more humane mouse trap.Professor James Jump hopes to strike it rich with his invention of a more humane mouse trap.Professor James Jump hopes to strike it rich with his invention of a more humane mouse trap.
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Sammy Brooks
- Blind Man
- (uncredited)
Jack Gavin
- Piano Mover
- (uncredited)
Dick Gilbert
- Piano Mover
- (uncredited)
William Gillespie
- Jimmy's Rival
- (uncredited)
Helen Gilmore
- Diner
- (uncredited)
Clara Guiol
- Waitress
- (uncredited)
Jules Mendel
- Patent Office Clerk
- (uncredited)
John M. O'Brien
- Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Andy Samuel
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
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Jimmy Jump: It doesn't kill the little mouse, but it makes him so ashamed he never comes back.
Featured review
Becoming Charley Chase
Rat's Knuckles, The (1925)
** (out of 4)
Jimmy Jump invents a humane mouse trap that he plans on selling so that he and the girlfriend (Martha Sleeper) can become millionaires. This is a pretty disappointing entry in the Charley Chase series for a number of reasons. The biggest one is that the screenplay is incredibly weak without very many jokes. It's not that there are a lot of jokes that simply don't work. It's worse because there just aren't many jokes that are even attempted for. The first portion of the film deals with a fantasy sequence with Chase and Sleeper acting rich and posing for a variety of pictures. There are a couple marginal laughs to be had with this sequence as they're obviously spoofing rich folks who do good things just for the cameras. After this things get too weak as we see Chase trying to sell this trap, which eventually leads to us getting to see how the thing actually works. At 9-minutes the thing moves along well enough but just don't expect very many laughs. Certainly one of the weaker entries in the series.
** (out of 4)
Jimmy Jump invents a humane mouse trap that he plans on selling so that he and the girlfriend (Martha Sleeper) can become millionaires. This is a pretty disappointing entry in the Charley Chase series for a number of reasons. The biggest one is that the screenplay is incredibly weak without very many jokes. It's not that there are a lot of jokes that simply don't work. It's worse because there just aren't many jokes that are even attempted for. The first portion of the film deals with a fantasy sequence with Chase and Sleeper acting rich and posing for a variety of pictures. There are a couple marginal laughs to be had with this sequence as they're obviously spoofing rich folks who do good things just for the cameras. After this things get too weak as we see Chase trying to sell this trap, which eventually leads to us getting to see how the thing actually works. At 9-minutes the thing moves along well enough but just don't expect very many laughs. Certainly one of the weaker entries in the series.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Mar 16, 2010
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- Le Piège à rats
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- Runtime11 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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