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Max Linder (left) and Ralph McCullough.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Seven Years’ Bad Luck
Also known as Sept ans de malheur in France : {Seven Years Bad Luck}
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Max Linder
Cast: Max Linder [Max], Alta Allen [Max’s finacée], Betty K. Peterson [Mary, the maid], Ralph McCullough [Max’s valet], Lola Gonzales [a Hawaiian maid], Harry Mann [the chef], Chance Ward [the railroad conductor], Hugh Saxon [the station agent], Thelma Percy [the station agent’s daughter], Cap Anderson (Captain C.E. Anderson) [a jailbird], F.B. Crayne [a false friend], Pudgy the dog, Joe Martin the chimpanzee
Max Linder Productions production; distributed by Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation [R-C Pictures]. / Produced by Max Linder. Scenario by Max Linder. Cinematography by Charles J. Van Enger. Presented by Robertson-Cole. / © 6 February 1921 by Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation [LP16212]. Released May 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animals: Chimpanzees, Dogs - Blackface - Chases - Domestics: Maids, Valets - Luck: Bad - Mirrors: Broken - Railroads - Superstitions
Listing updated: 29 August 2023.
References: Bardèche-History pp. 82, 166-167; Cowie-Seventy p. ?; Kerr-Silent p. 58; Limbacher-Feature p. 218; Shipman-Cinema p. 72 : Cahiers-152 p. 76; ClasIm-220 p. C4 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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