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Seven Years Bad Luck

192165 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

After a bachelor party, Max mistakes a servant's impersonation for his reflection, then breaks the newly repaired mirror. Convinced that bad luck is following him, he turns small anxieties into larger disasters. His attempts to protect his engagement instead threaten to destroy it.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
61:44
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Max Linder · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsMax Linder

Behind the scenes

Max Linder wrote, directed and starred in the comedy. The mirror routine depends on precisely matched physical actions, then reverses the deception at the moment Max believes he has understood it.

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