Max Linder Movies

The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same time at a luxury hotel on the Riviera, each for a...

When Max's friends doubt his acting ability, he invites them to a dramatic theatrical performance.

Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have...

Max and his wife of three years are happy in most regards but one: they still don't have a child. When Max reads of a new method of "spontaneous...

Max is late for his own wedding, and, worse yet, has no shoes.

Max and his wife each blame the other for a nagging tongue. Max offers to bet his wife fifty pounds, even money both ways, that she will be the first...

A short movie.

In this one, Max is engaged to a girl -- called, as in all his shorts, 'Jane' -- and she loves her pussycat. She loves the lazy, immobile lump of fur...

Max at an evening party takes a necklace from one of the guests and makes good his escape. The guests and the police set out in pursuit but Max...

Max, who fears dogs, is chased by them through the city, over walls, and even up a chimney and onto a roof.

Max attempts to take a photo of a woman in a bathing suit, waiting while she swims around. He's waiting for her to emerge so he can snap the photo,...

Max Linder is out of sorts and bad-tempered. He is rude to his wife, who tells him she will leave him. He sees an advertisement for pills which...

Max has been invited to meet with his in-laws and must dress formally, but each hat he attempts to wear for the occasion gets destroyed.

To reassure his fans, Max Linder has been filming with his family at his place of convalescence...

At the beach, amorous Max exchanges his shoes for those of a fair bather. The scheme goes awry, Linder's dog still further adding to the fun.

Reminiscences of the early days of cinema and films show in music halls, including extracts. (BFI)

"Scene, a first-class railway carriage. Max and delightful girl alone. "May I smoke?" breaks the ice, and then Max brings all the arts of fascination...

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

The film begins with Max being invited to dinner with his fiancée and future in-laws. To be polite, he stops on the way at a bakery to bring...

Max Linder and his fiancée, Madge, scheme to get a few minutes' lovemaking, for Max's prospective Pa-in-law is inclined to monopolize Max over...