Sunday Calm

{{short description|1923 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Sunday Calm

| image = Sunday Calm FilmPoster.jpeg

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| director = Robert F. McGowan

| writer = Hal Roach
H. M. Walker

| producer = Hal Roach

| starring = Joe Cobb
Jackie Condon
Mickey Daniels
Jack Davis
Allen Hoskins
Ernest Morrison
Leona Levin
Richard Daniels
Clara Guiol
Helen Gilmore

| narrator =

| cinematography =

| editing =

| music =

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{Film date|1923|12|16}}

| runtime = {{duration|m=25|s=18}}

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

| budget =

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Sunday Calm is a 1923 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SundayCalm1923.html |title=Silent Era: Sunday Calm |accessdate=September 12, 2008|work=silentera}}{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226138/Sunday-Calm/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520151309/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226138/Sunday-Calm/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Sunday Calm |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |accessdate=September 12, 2008}} It was the 20th Our Gang short subject to be released.

Plot

The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. After the cart loses a wheel, the parents replace it, only to be left behind when the horse bolts with the wagon and the gang. Arriving in the woods, the gang run wild until their parents catch up with them. A storm interrupts the picnic, after which the horse bolts again, this time leaving everybody behind.

Production notes

Mary Kornman does not appear.

The plot device of a family embarking on a Sunday picnic was reused in Laurel and Hardy's 1929 film Perfect Day.Maltin, Leonard and Bann, Richard W. (1977, rev. 1992). The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang, pp. 25-26. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. {{ISBN|0-517-58325-9}}

Cast

=The Gang=

=Additional cast=

References

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