Fire Away (1925) is a film. Directed by Stephen Roberts. Starring Al St. John, Jim Kelley, Lucille Hutton, Glen Cavender.
· 6.5/10 · 17 min · 1925
Nominally about attempts to steal a gold mine, the movie starts out with the air of a realistic comedy, then immediately descends into a series of perfectly timed gags which made me goggle at their improbability -- not the sort of thing you normally think of in a slapstick comedy. Very quickly the unerring ability of ropes to loop themselves around tree roots, stopping Al from plummeting to his death or an explosion to drop him on a bull came to make me goggle again.
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