Sunday Calm
About Sunday Calm
The Tuckers and the McTeeters load a horse wagon for a Sunday picnic. Farina and Ernie hitch their own cart on behind. A wheel comes off. While the parents fix it, the horse bolts with the Our Gang kids. In the woods the children eat the lunch, swim, and run wild until the adults catch up. A bear and then a storm break up the meal. The horse bolts a second time and leaves the whole party on the road.
Cast & crew
More about Sunday Calm
Robert F. McGowan directed the 20th Our Gang short for producer Hal Roach. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. Pathé Exchange released it on 16 December 1923. It runs two reels. Lord Heath's Hal Roach log gives filming dates in May, July, and October 1923, production number A-19.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Jack Davis, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, and Ernest Morrison are the gang. Mary Kornman is not in it.
- Jackie loosens a wheel before the families leave, which is why it falls off.
- The Sunday-picnic wreck was reused as the premise of Laurel and Hardy's Perfect Day (1929).
Scenes
- The repaired wheel goes back on, and the horse takes the wagon, and the kids, into the woods without the parents.
- A bear hits the picnic, the rain follows, and the horse leaves everyone behind.
Influenced
- Perfect Day (1929)
Also available
- Internet Archive (SundayCalm1923OurGangSilentFilm)
