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Dynamite Dan (1924)
Topic Started: Oct 26 2007, 08:05 AM (217 Views)
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Dynamite Dan
Sunset Productions, 1924
Directed by Bruce M. Mitchell

Starring Kenneth MacDonald, Diana Alden, and Boris Karloff

Dynamite Dan is a star vehicle for young, handsome, athletic leading man Kenneth MacDonald, who -- a couple of decades later -- would be a slimy, oily villain in serials (Valley of Vanishing Men) and Three Stooges shorts (Hold that Lion) for Columbia. Here, he socks his overbearing boss down at the shipping company (good for him) and in the melee that follows, foreman Karloff swipes the payroll from the safe and blames it on good ol' Dan. Our Hero takes it on the lam, becoming first an athletic instructor at Miss Pratt's Exclusive School for Young Ladies (!) and then a pugilist. Meanwhile Boris uses his ill-gotten gains to buy the shipping company, but unbeknownst to him that new cute secretary he's hired is Dan's sweetie, out to find the evidence that will clear her beau.

A good-natured comedy, but not a good one. Karloff does what he can with this stuff, and he sure looks young and thin. I suspect this film's corniness may have played well out in the sticks, but I hesitate to mention that for fear of insulting all of you out in the sticks, wherever that is. Dynamite Dan is available on DVD from Alpha, but not in a very watchable edition.
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The great thing about being a hillbilly is, the sticks are wherever I am.

But it's always wise to remember, "Stix Nix Hix Pix." That's why I'm a foreign film addict.
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panzer the great & terrible
Oct 26 2007, 12:35 PM
The great thing about being a hillbilly is, the sticks are wherever I am.

But it's always wise to remember, "Stix Nix Hix Pix." That's why I'm a foreign film addict.

Plus, all the subtitles helped learned ya reading real good.
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