The tribulations of a landlady who has the misfortune of having Snub and Eddie as her non-paying boarders..


Hal Roach’s two-reel honeymoon with chaos, Cut the Cards, lands like a shaken bottle of bootleg seltzer: pop, hiss, giggle, stain on your Sunday best. There is no prologue, no pastoral overture—only the instant combustion of character economics. Snub Pollard’s lantern jaw juts into frame first, a pickax of comic arro...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Charley Chase

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" Hal Roach’s two-reel honeymoon with chaos, Cut the Cards, lands like a shaken bottle of bootleg seltzer: pop, hiss, giggle, stain on your Sunday best. There is no prologue, no pastoral overture—only the instant combustion of character economics. Snub Pollard’s lantern jaw juts into frame first, a pickax of comic arrogance, followed by Eddie Boland’s gangly grace, limbs signing IOUs in mid-air. Together they form a binary star of insolvency, orbiting Marie Mosquini’s beleaguered matron whose bo..."
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