Dorothy is a film fan from the middle west, who arrives in Los Angeles to visit relatives. Neal, a cashier of a local bank, is her fiance.


The first image Scott Darling and Frank Roland Conklin hurl at us is a locomotive slicing through wheat—an iron metaphor for the way movies themselves plowed through American innocence in 1921. Movie Mad never shows the train again; it doesn’t need to. The rest of its brisk two-reeler runtime is that train, a hurtling ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

William Beaudine

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"The first image Scott Darling and Frank Roland Conklin hurl at us is a locomotive slicing through wheat—an iron metaphor for the way movies themselves plowed through American innocence in 1921. Movie Mad never shows the train again; it doesn’t need to. The rest of its brisk two-reeler runtime is that train, a hurtling burlesque of star-struck delusion, with Dorothy Devore’s mid-western pilgrim as passenger, coal, and casualty. Neal Burns, usually the dependable fall-guy in Hal Roach two-shots, ..."
Scott Darling, Frank Roland Conklin
United States

