Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0738329061425 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: KINO INTERNATIONAL Manufacturer: KINO INTERNATIONAL Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: KINO INTERNATIONAL Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 03, 2008 Running Time: 82 minutes Sales Rank: 57623 Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Product Description: In 1923, slapstick pioneer Mack Sennett conceived and produced a feature-length film designed to showcase the homespun appeal and comedic prowess of Mabel Normand, who had been a fixture on the madcap screen for more than a decade. THE EXTRA GIRL follows the misadventures of Sue Graham, a small-town lass who escapes her romantic entanglements by heading for the green pastures of Hollywood. Sue quickly discovers that the dream factory is just a factory like any other, as she is assigned to duty in the wardrobe department. But through pluck and ambition, she manages to overcome every setback, including one hair-raising sequence in which she accidentally unleashes a man-eating lion on the studio backlot.
This Kino DVD also includes the rare 1913 short THE GUSHER, mastered from an archival 35mm print with the original color tints. Set in the oil fields of California, it follows the efforts of a wily con artist to defraud a yokel (Ford Sterling) and his bride-to-be (Normand). This short also stars The Keystone Cops.
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Rating: - Dramady, not Slapstick. Edited Sound Version c 1969 Paul Killiam
I give this DVD only 4 stars because of the final credit at the end that states "Edited Sound Version (c) 1969 Paul Killiam. The word "Edited" bothers me, I have not seen any other version of this to know what has been edited.
KINO mislabels this as a "Slapstick Symposium" series DVD, but the movie is far from slapstick. Sure Mabel takes a couple of pratfalls, but the humor is light and the melo-drama is heavy. Others have described the story, so i will just add a few more notes of interest.
The title card is a new one designed to look like the original, but MABEL NORNAM's name now appears above the title. If you look at the cast listing which appears at the end of the film and not the beginning, MABEL gets 4th billing! I don't know if this is an original credit card, as they all seem to be new recreations, but MABEL IS the star without any question.
Rating: - More Mabel!
Kino has released THE EXTRA GIRL under its Slapstick Symposium banner, but the humor in this appealing 1923 Mack Sennett feature has little in common with the crazed tumult of his classic slapstick shorts. THE EXTRA GIRL is controlled comedy, "conceived and produced" by Sennett, the notes tell us, to "showcase" the talents of Mabel Normand. (Phyllis Haver was initially being showcased; she had already done some work on the film when Normand stepped in as her replacement.) Sennett, we know, free of his Triangle-Keystone obligations, was eager to produce feature-length films and serious about proving that Mabel Normand was capable of more than a superlative pratfall.
Was she ever! In THE EXTRA GIRL she is winsome, charming, romantic, petulant, disappointed, torn, remorseful, terrified, determined--and funny. We may miss, for a minute or two, the softer, daffier, more explosive Mabel of the Arbuckle ... Read More
Rating: - A timeless comedy classic!
It's great to see a top quality silent comedy classic like "The Extra Girl" released by Kino International with excellent picture quality and a very suitable, traditional organ score so that further generations can enjoy the brilliant work of Hollywood's comedy pioneers. The producer of this film is none other than Mack Sennett, the creator of the Keystone Kops comedies in the early 1910s which have been enjoyed for decades around the world. In those early days Mabel Normand was a hugely popular star in Sennett's comedy capers, and this 1923 production is probably the pinnacle of their careers. Unlike those early short slapstick Keystone comedies of the 1910s, "The Extra Girl" is a product of the early 1920s when longer and more sophisticated stories were popular, but the clever wit and physical comedy which made Sennett and Mabel Normand so popular are definitely not lacking. Besides the trademark chase scenes, ... Read More
Rating: - One Of Mabel Normand's Best!
It has taken quite a while for THE EXTRA GIRL to make it to commercial DVD and now that it's finally here, we should all be grateful. But with that gratitude there should be some sadness as well for this 1923 film was the beginning of the end for one of the silent era's most gifted performers. Mabel Normand (1892-1930) began her career as a model for Charles Dana Gibson before breaking into films with Biograph in 1909. She moved over to Vitagraph and then left to be with Mack Sennett at Keystone in 1912.
In addition to being the silent era's greatest comedienne she was among the first women to write and direct her own material. She also directed Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle but was never given credit for it. She successfully moved from shorts to feature films before her run of bad luck began. Implicated but never charged in a series of scandals including the unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor, ... Read More
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- Dramady, not Slapstick. Edited Sound Version c 1969 Paul Killiam
- One Of Mabel Normand's Best!
