Max Linder Movies

Again Max is forced into marriage. If he doesn't marry soon he won't get any more money from his uncle. As all three candidates refuse his proposal...

Astigmatic, Max apologizes to lampposts, kisses the wrong lady, and is challenged to a duel.

The film begins with Max being invited to dinner with his fiancée and future in-laws. To be polite, he stops on the way at a bakery to bring...

Max is about to make his first call upon a young lady, the daughter of distinguished parents, and he wants to make a good impression. As he dresses...

In consequence of a first kiss, poor Max finds himself claimed as a property of a persistent damsel. Even his approaching marriage does not deter the...

Blind courtship over a hedge.

Max and his friend, who came to visit him in Paris both fall in love with his new maid. The girl is very friendly, and while one plays the piano, she...

Boy tricks his father into drinking castor oil. The latter is obliged to defecate in a series of unlikely places, to the evident disgust of members...

"Scene, a first-class railway carriage. Max and delightful girl alone. "May I smoke?" breaks the ice, and then Max brings all the arts of fascination...

Max is in love with a charming girl, who also is already affianced to another. Does Max despair? Never. The debonair gentleman sets his wits to work...

Max, the celebrated fun maker, is shown in another of his amusing playlets. His fiancée, ere she marries him, insists that he prove himself a...

Coming to visit a girl, Max presents himself as a pedicurist.

Max at an evening party takes a necklace from one of the guests and makes good his escape. The guests and the police set out in pursuit but Max...

Some promotional footage shot for "Max, der Zirkuskönig".

Julot goes out into society for the first time. He is in his sunday best, but looks ridiculous. After many mistakes and faux-pas he is chased out by...

A dramatic short.

Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.

Reminiscences of the early days of cinema and films show in music halls, including extracts. (BFI)