Agenor is Picking Up

Comedy 8 minutes

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About Agenor is Picking Up

Aging Agénor has his heart and five louis to offer a woman who charges for the evening. A handful of miracle pills stiffens him up. The cure is so thorough that he loses his mustache.

More about Agenor is Picking Up

The French title is Agénor fait un levage. IMDb and a SensCritique listing date the anonymous silent short to 1925 and time it at 8 minutes. It is black and white. No director is credited. A Commons file runs 7 minutes 57 seconds.

Themes

  • An old man with five louis
  • Pills that do too much
  • A mustache that does not survive the cure
  • Agénor
  • pills
  • mustache
  • French short
  • silent

Preservation

An anonymous French short of 1925, preserved in the compilation Polissons et galipettes and on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • IMDb notes that the short was edited into the 2002 compilation The Good Old Naughty Days (Polissons et galipettes).
  • The Commons file is labeled as coming from that compilation.

Scenes

  • Agénor counts out five louis.
  • The pills work, and the mustache comes off.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (AgnorFaitUnLevage)
  • Wikimedia Commons (Agenor fait un levage.ogv)