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The Picnic: A Silent Melodrama

Obsolete Pictures · USA · Drama / Comedy / Romance · 25 min · 80K views

Directed by Allen White · Starring Lee Harvey Roswell, Bree Hylkema, Zachary Rukstela, Robin Hood · 2014

A bumbling suitor's picnic goes wrong when a mustache-twirling villain abducts his sweetheart, launching a chase through strange encounters.

A lovingly crafted Keaton-and-Sennett-style silent two-reeler with an original score and real period locations.

A Jazz Age silent in which a bumbling suitor takes his best girl on a picnic outing, only to have her abducted by a nefarious, mustache-twirling villain from right under his nose. A chase ensues, and the hapless hero mud

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