Pool Sharks

It's interesting to see this film finally. W.C. wears a bushy black mustache and looks a lot thinner than in his later movies. There's lots of slapstick and sight gags in this, since it's a silent film, and it even has the impressive use of stop motion in several scenes with the billiard balls. Incredibly, Fields looks a lot like Steve Martin, especially in the pool room sequence. Whether it's funny or not is hard to say. It was interesting, but not really funny. More of a curiosity piece, but worth seeing just the same.