"Pop Goes the Cork with Max Linder" "This film has been conceived and produced by Maud Linder as a tribute to her father who wrote, directed and starred in the three films which make up this program:" ""Be My Wife", "Seven Years Bad Luck" and "The Three Must Get Theres"" "Original music score by Gérard Calvi" "This is a Max Linder Production." "Specially presented by René Clair" "Charles Chaplin." "That's him." "And it's to him that Max Linder appears to be saying:" " Are you aware of all that you owe me?" "But Max never had to say that." "For Chaplin himself dedicated one of his photos:" ""To the one and only Max, the professor, from his disciple," "Charles Chaplin."" "Max Linder, who came from the theatre and the vaudeville, began his movie career long before the American movie comic style was created." "And in a few years he became the greatest comedy star of his day." "Author and director of several hundreds of films, he created a personality that was all his own." "Gentleman, ladies man, fortune hunter..." "Sportsman..." "Bull-fighter..." "Horseman, swordsman..." "Always dignified, even in the face of the worst difficulties, this comic bourgeois, despite his top hat, his tie, even his stick, his patent leather shoes, is a second cousin to the D'Artagnan" "of "The Three Musketeers"." "Here are some scenes taken from his pictures." "His old films will perhaps allow you to judge the extent of the debt the movie comics owe to Max Linder, this great pioneer." "Aunt Agatha sees in Simon a suitable suitor for Mary." "Wait for me in the garden by the cherry tree." "Mary" ""We can't meet tomorrow, Max." "My new music teacher is coming to give me a lesson."" "The next day." "But Max keeps trying." ""Mary, will you be my wife?"" "His unrelenting efforts crowned with success, Max is free to marry Mary, and lays his bachelor days to rest with a last night out..." "The morning after..." ""It's nothing, sir, the man next door jumped out of the window."" ""Please bring a large mirror." "It's urgent!"" ""Don't show off, Victor." "Go get me my shaving things."" ""I'm leaving Aunt Agatha's house now, and I'll be home in an hour."" ""I hope you don't believe in that superstition about 7 years' bad luck, sir?"" "Series of auto accidents" "A series of auto accidents occurred yesterday in our town..." ""Get me my horse by phone, will you?"" ""I guess I'd rather walk."" "Unknown to Max, his best friend Ferdinand is also wooing Mary..." ""I see a dog menacing your happiness."" ""You were right about 7 years' bad luck." "Pack my things!"" ""Unpack my things..."" ""It was all a silly mistake, Mary." "Be nice to Max." "Go and mend his broken heart."" "After telling Ferdinand about his difficulties, Max asks his friend to intercede with Mary." ""Victor, pack my things!"" ""Mary, I just saw Max..."" ""He was leaving with another woman!"" ""I made a bet I'd get in without a ticket."" ""I want the station-master!"" ""Your father will lose his job for leaving his post!"" ""Oh, then you are here."" ""So it seems."" "Papa!" ""Hello!" "A man got on train Number 10 without a ticket."" ""I'm handling him!"" ""Don't be scared, I won't bite you."" "Brokenhearted Mary makes a bitter decision." ""We would like you to marry us."" "Seven years later..." ""THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES"" "In a tiny village in old France..." ""Go forth, D'Artagnan, and be worthy of thy ancestors."" "Meanwhile in Paris, the Queen is having a ball." "His Serene Highness!" ""For your birthday, my little Queen..."" "His Eminence concocts a hair-raising plot against the Queen." "The Queen's bold lover, the Duke..." "Fly with this secret token of my love!" "D'Artagnan rides on towards his destiny." "Gay Paree at last!" "A mule's just a mule, but clothes make the man." "The King's 'Must-Get-Theres'." "The Captain of the 'Must-Get-Theres'." "Bill:" "Casualties authorised – 80 Excess – 79" "Fine for the musketeers – 79 Louis His Eminence" "Porthos!" "Aramis!" "Athos!" "We shall cross swords at dawn!" "We shall cross swords at dawn!" "I know... swords at dawn!" "At dawn, the Three 'Must-Get-Theres'..." "Stop!" "My choice is made." "Count me on your side!" "Life spins along at Court also." "No money Sire, but, if instead you would order the Queen..." "I order you to wear your new brooch at the royal ball tomorrow." "I know a trusty man." "He'll ride to London for you." "London." "The Duke blinded by his love..." "My Beloved, the king is suspicious." "Send back the brooch or I am lost." "Your Annie." "At the royal ball." "Morphine" ""Everyone seek the Queen's brooch!"" "You're wounded!"