Max and Maxie are private detectives who are hired by a millionaire to check up on his greedy relatives.Max and Maxie are private detectives who are hired by a millionaire to check up on his greedy relatives.Max and Maxie are private detectives who are hired by a millionaire to check up on his greedy relatives.
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Maxie Rosenbloom
- Maxie
- (as Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom)
Symona Boniface
- Aunt Ghastly
- (uncredited)
Rita Conde
- Miss Darby
- (uncredited)
James Logan
- Koons the Butler
- (uncredited)
John Merton
- Uncle Shark
- (uncredited)
Emil Sitka
- Horace Dwiggins
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSymona Boniface's final acting role. Her frail physical appearance, due to her cancer battle, is evident here and passed away a couple weeks after filming ended.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits include a still shot of a pair of boxing gloves hanging on a wall, which describes the two lead characters as former prizefighters-turned-private detectives.
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Decent Scare Comedy, But Has Pacing Issues
The first of four two-reelers to feature former prizefighters Max Baer and "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom produced for Columbia Pictures in the early 1950s. The two are former boxers who open up a detective agency, where nervous client Horace Dwiggins (Emil Sitka, who has a dual role in the short as his uncle Elmer) hires Baer to impersonate him at the reading of his late uncle's will, as he is going back to his exiled home in Africa. When the two Maxies arrive at the house, they discover that Dwiggin's relatives (including the butler and the crooked lawyer in charge of the will) are planning to kill the two as they want to split the inheritance for themselves.
Unfortunately, The short suffers from some dragged-out editing, though no fault of director Edward Bernds. The character development of the two leads takes up almost half of the film and the standard scare situations don't happen until the last five minutes. Kenneth MacDonald and Symona Boniface (who died from cancer a few weeks after filming) contribute to the short in their small roles.
Unfortunately, The short suffers from some dragged-out editing, though no fault of director Edward Bernds. The character development of the two leads takes up almost half of the film and the standard scare situations don't happen until the last five minutes. Kenneth MacDonald and Symona Boniface (who died from cancer a few weeks after filming) contribute to the short in their small roles.
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- Dec 13, 2019
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- Runtime17 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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