Those Terrible Twins

Those Terrible Twins is a 1925 Australian silent film directed J.E. Ward, a Papuan adventurer, who had previously made Australias Own 1919. It is a slapstick comedy about the character Ginger Meggs.

The movie first screened privately in Sydney in May 1925 before being released as a support feature later. The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald said the film was clearly modelled on American moviesThe little sketches beneath the text of the captions exactly resemble those that adorn the Christie comedies. There are pieslinging episodes, bathing beauties, crooks, who raid Jewellers shops, and scenes in which undergarments play a prominent part. The dissolving view, where a man knocked unconscious, sees a vision of dancing fairies in this case one dancing fairy has had quite a vogue in America since Charlie Chaplin used it as one of the features of Sunnyside. It may be an accident that one of Mr. Wards crooks bears the same name Spike Malone, as a shady character in Richard Dixs picture Manhattan, released here a few weeks ago. These efforts to achieve variety by patching together the most diversely coloured materials, from gaudy farce to sombre melodrama, have succeeded only in leaving the story rambling and incoherent. It is, in fact, but a series of incidents. There has been no attempt in the settings, to take advantage of the citys natural beauties. One realizes that Australian producers cannot afford to spend large sums on elaborate interiors, and so forth but surely we are entitled to look for something more attractive than back lanes. ........

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