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Pimple's Complaint (1913)
 

British Film Institute

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35mm, black & white, 207 ft of 450 ft, silent
 
DirectorsFred Evans
 Joe Evans
Production CompanyFolly Films

Cast: Fred Evans (Pimple), Joe Evans

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Pimple becomes the unwitting victim of a pair of young practical jokers.

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Pimple comedies frequently used traditional playground gags to drive the action. The sign on the back of an unwitting victim is a classic and is used here to good effect. Although incomplete, this is one of the more straightforwardly comprehensible Pimple films. It is interesting to note that outside the music hall in the film is a poster advertising the Cricks film 'A Sporting Chance'. Cricks was the company for which Fred Evans worked before setting up Folly films and with whom he was supposed to have fallen out.

Bryony Dixon

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Complete surviving film (3:03)
GALLERY / SCRIPTS / AUDIO
SEE ALSO
Evans, Fred (1889-1951)
Evans, Joe (1891-1967)
The 'Pimple' Films