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The Red Mill

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Tavern worker Tina (Marion Davies) enters and wins an ice-skating contest so that she can kiss Dennis (Owen Moore), a visiting traveler. Unfortunately, circumstances prevent their kissing, and Dennis, who is a bit of a ladies' man, leaves the country shortly after. When Dennis returns later, he sets his sights on Gretchen (Louise Fazenda), who is caught up in a love triangle with two other men. He goes to her home -- but it is Tina, who is helping out Gretchen, that he finds and falls for.

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Audience Member Marion Davies may not have the highest comedic talent in this film, but she does have a certain girl-next-door appeal, and 'Red Mill' was reasonably entertaining. She plays a Dutch servant who is used cruelly by her boss, a tavern owner played by George Siegmann with appropriate snarl and meanness. In one scene, he's dragging her near-frozen body along the ice back to work; in another, he's literally whipping her. She keeps a little ray of sunshine in a pet mouse who lives in a large hole in one of her clogs, and then soon sees and falls for a young man played by Owen Moore. It's not so straightforward, however, in that her identity is confused with another woman (Louise Fazenda), who has her own troubles, being betrothed to an old man but wanting another (Karl Dane). It gets a bit silly and some of the intertitles are oddly worded, but there are some nice scenes at the end in the "haunted" old mill, especially as the chase moves outside to the windmill blades themselves. There is also a brief scene of riches in the imagination of the young lovers which then returns to the present, a touching reminder of what the important thing is in life - true love. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member mari9on davies at her silent best Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member good silent directed by fatty arbuckle Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

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Marion Davies

Tina

Owen Moore

Dennis

Louise Fazenda

Gretchen

George Siegmann

Willem

Karl Dane

Capt. Jacob Edam
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Synopsis Tavern worker Tina (Marion Davies) enters and wins an ice-skating contest so that she can kiss Dennis (Owen Moore), a visiting traveler. Unfortunately, circumstances prevent their kissing, and Dennis, who is a bit of a ladies' man, leaves the country shortly after. When Dennis returns later, he sets his sights on Gretchen (Louise Fazenda), who is caught up in a love triangle with two other men. He goes to her home -- but it is Tina, who is helping out Gretchen, that he finds and falls for.
Director
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Screenwriter
Henry Martyn Blossom, Frances Marion
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
Production Co
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Cosmopolitan Pictures
Genre
Comedy
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 29, 1927, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2017
Runtime
1h 12m
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