Gorbatschow – Eine Begegnung (2018)

Gorbatschow – Eine Begegnung: Directed by Werner Herzog, André Singer. With Yuri Andropov, James Baker III, Leonid Brezhnev, Konstantin Chernenko. The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.

“This is one of the many Fox short comedies issued during the silent era, all of which, save a vanishingly small number, are lost. This series is fairly close in broad outline to the original idea of Roachu0026#39;s u0026#39;Our Gangu0026#39; with a bunch of kids and their various pets. It includes a Pete the Pup lookalike, battling a bunch of crooks following a robbery who are looking for a hide out, around a rodeo venue.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis one survives in a Kodascope cutdown, and the pace is timed to emphasize just the gags. There is a lot less kid stuff in this one than youu0026#39;d get in a Roach Our Gang and much more well-directed slapstick around the adults, including Bud Jamison in silk hat and morning coat, whose cigar constantly gets busted. While no world-beater, particularly for those of us who love the Roach series, this is now a fine, high-speed short for those who want to see what the — nowadays — less available competition was doing.”