The Merry Frolics of Satan

The Merry Frolics of Satan French Les QuatCents Farces du diable , literally The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil is a 1906 French silent film directed by and starring Georges Mlis. The film, an updated comedic adaptation of the Faust legend, follows the adventures of an engineer who barters with the Devil for superhuman powers and is forced to face the consequences. It was released by Mliss Star Film Company and is numbered 849870 in its catalogues, where it is advertised as a grande pice fantastique entableaux.

Crackford comes home to dinner, where his wife and daughters are waiting for him. Wanting to try out the pills, he throws one to the floor. Immediately, two servants in livery burst out of a trunk, opening it to reveal more servants and a smaller trunk, who open it to reveal still more servants and another trunk, and so on the process goes on until the dining room is full of servants, who load all of Crackfords furniture, as well as Crackford himself and his family, into the trunks. In the blink of an eye the trunks become a miniature train for the family, driven by John the servant. Crackfords highspeed tour has begun.The tiny train wends its way out of the city, meeting with ridicule from onlookers. Arriving in the countryside, most of the train and all of Crackfords family are lost in an accident with a collapsing bridge Crackford, caring only for his world tour, continues on undismayed. Crackford and John stop at a village inn, the landlord of which is again Mephistopheles in disguise. The two travelers find their attempts to eat confounded by magical disappearances and transformations in despair, they go to the kitchen to eat with the servants, only to be disrupted by apes and demons in a farcical pandemonium of appearances and disappearances using every possible entrance and exit. ........

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