Two Tars

1928

Comedy / Family

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 63% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 1688 1.7K

traffic jam black and white sailor silent film shore leave short film

Plot summary

Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.

Director

James Parrott Photo
James Parrott

Top cast

Frank Ellis Photo
Frank Ellis as Motorist
Baldwin Cooke Photo
Baldwin Cooke as Motorist
Edgar Dearing Photo
Edgar Dearing as Motorcycle Policeman
Jack Hill Photo
Jack Hill as Motorist with Mattress
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200.12 MB
1280*958
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
12 hr 22 min
Seeds 3
371.72 MB
1434*1074
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
12 hr 22 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cinefool 8 / 10

a well constructed and satisfying comedy

Part of the beauty of this perfectly paced classic comedy is not just it's gradual compounding of incident but how resonant it's plotting is today. Who likes traffic jams? Nobody! Stan and Ollie seem almost prescient to have tapped into a vexation that plagues us even now; maybe more than ever on today's superhighways that still cannot accommodate the flow of modern commuting. It is not so much the individual performances that matter here, but the over-all building of pace and piling on of incident. I think of this film every time I'm tangled in bad traffic; so will you, but please resist the temptation to rip the fender off of the car alongside you -- it may be mine.
Reviewed by chuckamania69 8 / 10

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Reviewed by weezeralfalfa 8 / 10

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