Mr. Fix-It
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves t...
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"Were there two Douglas Fairbanks Seniors? I am familiar with the lean, athletic, manly swashbuckling version. Seeing Double Trouble and Mr. Fix-It, back-to-back on TCM, I am puzzled where this overweight potato head ''comedy" version came from. Fairbanks shows little deft as a comedic actor. Sure, he's got frantic movement, as was the style at the time. But none of it works. As a silent-screen actor, he also is unable to sell the comedy with his facial expressions. Frankly, he's a non-entity up there. I'm surprised his career survived. Whoever convinced him to ..."
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According to an article on film preservation in the issue of Variety dated Aug. 2-8, 2010, technicians at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation are now at work restoring the only known print of this film.
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A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves t...