Marcel Perez

Saturnin Farandoul birth was marked by adventure: saved by the waters, raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, becoming captain of a frigate, he sets off to explore the five or six known and unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of the beautiful Mysora; on land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches but nothing will be able to stop his desire to travel. (www.europafilmtreasures.eu)

The story of the meeting and falling in love of a man and a woman. The story is told by showing the characters from below the knees only. A man in smart shoes prepares to go out. His maid gives him his coat, he dusts off his shoes and leaves. As he leaves the building an elegant woman drops her purse. He returns it to her and then follows her as... (imdb)

Italian slaptsick comedy short with Robinet trying his luck at boxing. (imdb)

A Italian comedy short with Marcel Perez as Robinet.

Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bone-breaking, so much so that it makes Keystone slapstick look like drawing-room comedy by contrast. (imdb)

Italian slapstick actor Robinet riding a bicycle.

Robinet wants to try out to be a jockey, but has to go through a lot of exercise to reach the weight needed.

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground.

Tweedledum gets chased by police on bicycles.

Robinet visits the music-hall, where he falls in love with the star attraction, singer Mimi Kratzfuss. (imdb)

Tweedledum wears a white suit and is caught in the rain. He stubbornly proceeds on his way and encounters so many accidents that he is forced to return home in a pitiful state. (imdb)

Robinet escapes from his wife's smothering devotion to the adventure of lovemaking outside marriage.

Overly suspicious of his wife, Robinet follows her into an apartment building, where he proceeds, floor by floor, bursting into rooms, looking for her. In these rooms he finds a dentist hell bent to pull teeth, a boxing match he gets mixed into, an aggressive bunch of masseurs and lastly, a sculptor. (imdb)

Tweedledum is a farm hand that wants to elope with the farmer's daughter, but the family is violently against it, and chase him off. So he gets revenge on them by pranks like throwing bricks at them from the roof, setting fire to the mother sleeping on the porch. He and his love eventually escape by using a an old iron bath tub as a boat. (imdb)

Perez plays all the parts in this tale of a lonely wife that invites a stranger into her flat while her hunter husband is away, only for him to return and chase the lover down the street, into a field, and onto a pier. (imdb)

A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.

Basically it's about a dude who is a Barbour but he is blind and each people in line will Coe (imdb)

Perez plays a henpecked husband who is chained at the neck by his wife in the kitchen and when he tries to stand up for himself, she throws him out of the window where he is dangling for dear life.Once she sends him to the store, Tweedy becomes smitten by a stage actress and tries to woo her with great success until his wife shows up on the scene and all hell breaks loose with cartoon gags.

Tweedledum as a short-sighted chauffeur.

Tweedledum's attempts to master the bicycle lead him into situations both thrilling and comical, and the ride proves most adventurous. He barely escapes with his life, and causes a mad scramble on the part of pedestrians who cross his path.

Tweedledum wears his sister's new slit-skirt, and with a handsome wig and beautiful hat, causes a stir on the boulevard. His many admirers follow him around from place to place and even invade his parlor when he gets home. His sister puts them to rout with a stout broom and she and Tweedledum enjoy a hearty laugh over the joke.

Marcel Perez meets Nilde Baracchi at a party and falls instantly in love. How much comedy short subjects have contributed to the 'falling in love at first sight' trope might make an interesting paper. Anyway, he falls in love, but things go wrong at the party, then again when he waits outside her apartment -- today we would say he was stalking her. Back then it was considered cute, particularly given the indignities of Italian slapstick -- and when he finally meets her again on a train.

Marcel Perez is so poor he can't even tip the janitor for some service or other. However, a messenger arrives with a telegram from a notary. An uncle is dead and has left Marcel a hundred thousand francs! With a huzzah and skips and falls and smashing of his old junk, Marcel is off to equip himself in the latest and most expensive fashion, waving the telegram like Mark Twain's Million-Pound Note to gain the instant obsequiousness of tailors, haberdasher and hatters.

Marcel Perez and Nilde Baracchi are blackmailers engaged in the badger game: each gets a member of the opposite sex into compromising positions, the other partner takes a photo and snap! Pay up or we tell your spouse.

Tweedledum goes out dining with a girl. He discovers that his worthy father is out on a little lark and is in the next booth to him. Many amusing complications result and in the end the old man buys his son's silence by paying both checks.

Marcel Perez arrives at the holiday resort wearing a pith helmet and carrying enough luggage to hold supplies for a monthlong journey through hostile territory. It's a good idea for a comic who never met a flight of stairs he didn't fall down.

Nilde Baracchi sends Marcel Perez out fishing, armed .... I mean "equipped" with a long, sturdy bamboo fishing pole and a line and hook. However, what he catches is not fish in this funny late 'Robinet' short.

Marcel Perez is, as you might guess from the title of this movie, a reporter. He's been assigned a new story: a general is in town to review the troops. Get an interview! The general does not wish to give an interview, so Perez has to resort to subterfuge. Good thing he's a comic and can raid the studio's wardrobe department for disguises.

When Marcel Perez finds two burglars leaving the scene of the crime carrying sacks of loot, he pursues them on his bicycle.

Tweedledum is challenged to a duel, but owing to an overpowering fear, ludicrously depicted, the weapons are discarded, one by one, and two bottles of champagne substituted.