Country: United States
Director: Robert
F. McGowan
Writers: Hal
Roach (story), H.M. Walker (titles)
Stars: Charles
A. Bachman, Joe Cobb and Jackie Condon
Release Date: 23
September 1923 (USA)
Production Co:
Hal Roach Studios
Sound Mix:
Silent
Color: Black and
White
Plot Keywords:
Chase | Human Skeleton | Our Gang | Hospital | X Ray Machine |
Tonsillitis | X Ray | Skeleton | Scare | Castor Oil | Animate Skeleton |
Hospital Visit | Skeleton Mask | Tonsils | Tonsillectomy | Children | Actor
Shares First Name With Character
Genres: Comedy |
Family | Short
"No
Noise" is an interesting early silent Our Gang comedy involving the gang
visiting Mickey Daniels in the hospital and running wild in said institution.
The doctors try to scare them away and.....watch the results and laugh!
Although a few of the gags are elaborate for a 1920's comedy (those involving
the x-ray machine in particular), the naturalness and likability of the kids
make this a winner, as is the case with most of the Gang/Rascals films. Some of
the PC killjoys will shudder at seeing the doctors ham it up by scaring the
kids while chasing them with saws, but most viewers to have enough sense to
lighten up and see this for what it is, for entertainment purposes only and let
the PC crowd gag on DVD's of the nauseating Care Bears and Barney the Dinosaur.
It may be
surprising that the richly comic device of the Gang on the loose in a hospital
was rarely repeated in later Gang/rascals comedies that most viewers are
familiar with, but the syrup and Castor oil gag with Mickey Daneils and his
nurse was remade with Dickie Moore in "Free Wheeling" (itself a
remake of the silent "Tire Trouble" and "One Wild Ride"-Hal
Roach and Bob McGowan were really big on self-referencing) and this episode was
redone in the later MGM post Little Rascals Our Gang comedy "Men in
Fright," with Alfalfa reprising Mickey Daniels' role. Like other early
Gang films, it is a truly pleasant way to spend 20 minutes.
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