Sunday Calm Explained

Sunday Calm
Director:Robert F. McGowan
Producer:Hal Roach
Starring:Joe Cobb
Jackie Condon
Mickey Daniels
Jack Davis
Allen Hoskins
Ernest Morrison
Leona Levin
Richard Daniels
Clara Guiol
Helen Gilmore
Distributor:Pathé Exchange
Country:United States
Language:Silent
English intertitles

Sunday Calm is a 1923 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.[1] [2] It was the 20th Our Gang short subject to be released.

Plot

The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. After the cart loses a wheel, the parents replace it, only to be left behind when the horse bolts with the wagon and the gang. Arriving in the woods, the gang run wild until their parents catch up with them. A storm interrupts the picnic, after which the horse bolts again, this time leaving everybody behind.

Production notes

Mary Kornman does not appear.

The plot device of a family embarking on a Sunday picnic was reused in Laurel and Hardy's 1929 film Perfect Day.[3]

Cast

The Gang

Additional cast

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Silent Era: Sunday Calm . September 12, 2008. silentera.
  2. Web site: New York Times: Sunday Calm . https://web.archive.org/web/20110520151309/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226138/Sunday-Calm/overview . dead . May 20, 2011 . Movies & TV Dept. . . . Hal Erickson . Hal Erickson (author) . 2011 . September 12, 2008.
  3. [Leonard Maltin|Maltin, Leonard]