Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Bangville Police" is another black-and-white silent film from the earlier days of film as this one is also over 100 years old. it only runs for 8 minutes and if you hear the title, this is probably what an adult movie today could be named, but here "bang" really only refers to all the noise and chaos that exists in this movie. Director Henry Lehrman is probably as unknown to most today as are all the other cast members with one exception, even if they were really prolific and successful a century ago. The exception is Mabel Normand of course, who plays a young woman suspecting criminals at her farm. She locks herself in and calls the police. The other townsfolk also quickly rushes to her place and a lot of the comedy is about people mistaking others for criminals. Actually almost all of it. At eight minutes, it is okay of a story, even if not too convincing either. The only memorable aspect eventually is once again the stunningly beautiful Mabel Normand with her great aura where one cannot have doubts for a second why she was such a huge star in her early 20s already, even if this one here does not carry her name in the title. Everything else is negligible though and it's only worth seeing for the very biggest silent film fans. I give it a thumbs-down, even if the ending was admittedly kinda cute and this film did somehow have a suspense/thriller element next to the 90% comedy.

Lee Eisenberg The movie that made the Keystone Cops famous focuses on a simple misunderstanding that causes a complete goof-up. This wasn't the first movie starring the crowd, but it turned them into stars. Producing was Mack Sennett, now known for launching Charlie Chaplin's career (Dan Aykroyd played him in Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin), while the cast included Mabel Normand, Hank Mann (a Storm Trooper in "The Great Dictator") and Edgar Kennedy (the lemonade vendor in "Duck Soup")."Bangville Police" is both a fun time, and a look at the early years of cinema. I suspect that they had fun filming it. I hope to see the rest of the Keystone Cops movies in the future.

didi-5 Mabel Normand recruits the mad Kops to get rid of strangers in her barn; this is a very short piece (around 7 minutes) which isn't as frenetic as some of the others in the series. Normand has a fair bit of emoting to do and the Kops get their chase, but overall it feels like there is something missing.

Darren O'Shaughnessy (darren shan) Very simple, very short Keystone Kops film, about a farmgirl who causes panic when she thinks she spots a couple of burglars. Not as raucous as the wilder Kops films, and thus not as funny. An interesting relic of more primitive times, but in truth this is throwaway fodder.