Powder and Smoke

1924
10m

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Charley Chase and Blanche Mehaffey in Powder and Smoke (1924)

Chase plays a traveling lightening rod salesman who gets caught up in a real estate transaction gone wrong.Chase plays a traveling lightening rod salesman who gets caught up in a real estate transaction gone wrong.Chase plays a traveling lightening rod salesman who gets caught up in a real estate transaction gone wrong.

Director
- James Parrott
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7.0/10

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Director
- James Parrott
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Charley Chase

Jimmy Jump

Blanche Mehaffey

The Daughter

Eddie Baker

The Real Estate Agent

Leo Willis

The Bandit Chief

Jack Gavin

The Sheriff

Chet Brandenburg

The Deputy Sheriff

Joe Bordeaux

Bandit
(uncredited)

Ed Brandenburg

Rancher
(uncredited)

Jack Hill

Bandit
(uncredited)

Sam Lufkin

Bandit
(uncredited)

Lyle Tayo

The Girl's Mother
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6/10

Jumping at Lightning

This is one of Charley's Jimmy Jump one-reelers, produced when he was re-establishing himself as an on-screen presence, but before he went to his beautifully constructed two-reelers. As a result, the characterization and plot are cut down to a bare minimum and the result, while sustained by his wonderful gag construction, is not particularly remarkable.

In this one he is a lightning rod salesman out west. His gags are funny -- he and Eddie Baker have a great sequence passing an incriminating wallet back and forth -- but the overall effect is a bit too rushed. While I enjoyed it, it is not a good vehicle to showcase Chase to someone unfamiliar with him.