Mack Sennett as an actor


Does anybody else think he comes across as mentally defective -- the combined deficits, and none of the assets, of both Carl Childers and Billy Bob Thornton?

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At least in this film he does. So do Roscoe Arbuckle and Al St. John (and I'm sure quite a few other actors) in several Keystone comedies. I think it had something to do with the audience at the time - many were illiterate, but few were as simple-minded as some of the actors.

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