Synopsis
Private eyes Mutt and Jeff are on the trail of the ghostly shape-shifting criminal, the Phantom.
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01 Aug 1926
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I’m pretty much always going to be nutty over a grinning shapeshifting black silhouette trickster ghost in a wide brimmed hat.
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The phantom with BEWARE as his mouth is super cool but this is otherwise pretty boring. Main characters look like Eveready Harton.
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You know if you're gonna add sound to a silent cartoon, the least you could do is have the characters talk rather than...squeak?
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A Charley Bowers-drawn detective adventure that contains flashes of inspired design like the spooky ghost which adorns the blu-ray cover of Cartoon Roots: Halloween Haunts spelling out a stern warning to its hapless marks.
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The phantom seems like an interesting villain character. He deserves more interesting sleuths.
Part of my effort to watch at least one short film per day. Here is the list I am currently working through, with a random number generator determining the film each day. I will take recommendations for everything that's 40 minutes max.
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I didn’t care what was happening. It just seemed like a bunch of nonsense. Luckily it was short!
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Pretty fun, although it didn't make a huge impression on me -- the phantom's design is sick, though! Ultimately, if I'm looking for a cartoon with a similar plot and a similar buddy-duo, I'll hit up that Van Beuren chestnut, The Magic Mummy, from a few years later -- but I'm glad Mutt and Jeff forged the path!
Watched as part of Tommy Stathes' Halloween Haunts DVD/Blu-ray
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Mutt and Jeff, exquisite lovers, chase an apparition through the city. They eventually corner it in a house and Mutt leaves to get the police. But when the cops arrive they immediately begin to beat the shit out of Jeff with no cause or reason, just like they would in real life. But it turns out to be a dream and Mutt and Jeff wake up from their nap on a park bench and a cop immediately begins to beat the shit out of them, just like he would in real life
The apparition is a dimensional conduit that opens into a land filled with big boobed women.
final acting credit: none given
most desired prop: nothing