The Candid Camera - Director Leslie Pearce - Mack Sennett Talking Pictures - Fiction Film
Cast - Dorothy Granger - Franklin Pangborn - Cecil Cunningham - Harry Bowen - Toby Wing
Mrs Town? and her aunt one wearing fox fur taking tea in fairly wealthy living room ( note pre production code low cut dress ) - man arrives in convertible car ( roadster ) which wife wants as anniversary present, she takes breakfast to husband who is shaving, gag with soap bubble. Husband tells car salesman he won’t buy car - argument between husband and wife - husband goes back into dressing room. Gag wife opens door where husband was peering through keyhole.
06:03:44 Sequence with wife and aunt in old convertible car which won’t start - gag turning starting handle, checking fuel ends up with black face from exhaust - husband gets car going making disparaging remarks about her driving and racial reference to her black face re two black crows. Husband leaves in another roadster with male friend. Aunt in old car says “ He calls this transportation “ .. at which point car makes noise and sinks on its axles (gag).
06:06:23 Husband and friend wearing swimming trunks in police station, they have been arrested for in the policeman’s words “ getting gay on the beach “ with another woman.
06:06:59 Anniversary dinner at home minus husband. Maid brings telephone to wife who says its a newspaper calling, it is in fact her husbands friend , he spins line about her husband doing brave and heroic deed saving a child - cuts between house and police station. Diners make toast to hero. Husband calls wife on telephone she repeatedly says “ I love you “ - husband lies about fictitious rescue.
06:10:00 Party minus husband in cinema watching Educational Pictures “ The Spice of the Program” - all very well dresses - furs and jewels. On screen “The Candid Camera - Spicy Daily News “ says it will show real scenes of a “ masher at work “ Shows beach where Mr Town the husband is chasing blonde. Shows altercation between blonde and errant husband to the amazement of Mrs Town and party who are watching.
Mr Town arrested - Mrs Town in audience laughing.
06:13:27 Back at home and husbands friend is describing in detail to Mrs Town her husbands heroic rescue, Mrs Town and Aunt pretend not to know real story. Blonde who had given husband black eye on beach enters room - husband continues to try and lie his way out of situation. Truth comes out - husband on phone ordering car - “ nothing is too good for my wife” - couple embrace.
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The Candid Camera - Director Leslie Pearce - Mack Sennett Talking Pictures - Fiction Film Cast - Dorothy Granger - Franklin Pangborn - Cecil Cunningham - Harry Bowen - Toby Wing Mrs Town? and her aunt one wearing fox fur taking tea in fairly wealthy living room ( note pre production code low cut dress ) - man arrives in convertible car ( roadster ) which wife wants as anniversary present, she takes breakfast to husband who is shaving, gag with soap bubble. Husband tells car salesman he won’t buy car - argument between husband and wife - husband goes back into dressing room. Gag wife opens door where husband was peering through keyhole. 06:03:44 Sequence with wife and aunt in old convertible car which won’t start - gag turning starting handle, checking fuel ends up with black face from exhaust - husband gets car going making disparaging remarks about her driving and racial reference to her black face re two black crows. Husband leaves in another roadster with male friend. Aunt in old car says “ He calls this transportation “ .. at which point car makes noise and sinks on its axles (gag). 06:06:23 Husband and friend wearing swimming trunks in police station, they have been arrested for in the policeman’s words “ getting gay on the beach “ with another woman. 06:06:59 Anniversary dinner at home minus husband. Maid brings telephone to wife who says its a newspaper calling, it is in fact her husbands friend , he spins line about her husband doing brave and heroic deed saving a child - cuts between house and police station. Diners make toast to hero. Husband calls wife on telephone she repeatedly says “ I love you “ - husband lies about fictitious rescue. 06:10:00 Party minus husband in cinema watching Educational Pictures “ The Spice of the Program” - all very well dresses - furs and jewels. On screen “The Candid Camera - Spicy Daily News “ says it will show real scenes of a “ masher at work “ Shows beach where Mr Town the husband is chasing blonde. Shows altercation between blonde and errant husband to the amazement of Mrs Town and party who are watching. Mr Town arrested - Mrs Town in audience laughing. 06:13:27 Back at home and husbands friend is describing in detail to Mrs Town her husbands heroic rescue, Mrs Town and Aunt pretend not to know real story. Blonde who had given husband black eye on beach enters room - husband continues to try and lie his way out of situation. Truth comes out - husband on phone ordering car - “ nothing is too good for my wife” - couple embrace.