Fiddlesticks
About Fiddlesticks
Harry Hogan's father and brothers want him out, but his mother still hopes the double bass will make a musician of him. Professor von Tempo gives him a diploma only to stop the noise of My Wild Irish Rose, then tears the paper up when a street band will not keep him. A junk dealer pays Harry to go on playing so neighbors will throw scrap out of the windows. Harry flattens a piano with a steamroller, is paid for the wreck, and comes home in a top hat saying he made the money fiddling around.
Cast & crew
More about Fiddlesticks
Mack Sennett produced it, and Pathé Exchange released it on 27 November 1927, with Harry Edwards directing and Frank Capra and Arthur Ripley on the story. It was Langdon's last film for Sennett.
Themes
Look
William Williams photographed the street-band and steamroller scenes.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Vernon Dent plays both Professor von Tempo and Penrod, the junk dealer.
- Anna Dodge plays Harry's mother. Tiny Ward is the piano's owner. Leo Sulky appears as a junk dealer.
- William Hornbeck edited.
- Wikipedia notes that the plot runs parallel to Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother, released earlier in 1927.
- The title uses fiddlesticks both as a polite swear word and as a joke on the oversized bass.
Scenes
- Neighbors push a complaint under the door while Harry saws at My Wild Irish Rose.
- The junk dealer pays him to keep playing so metal comes out of the windows.
- A steamroller flattens a piano and the machine's owner pays for it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Fiddlesticks (1927).webm)
