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Slippery Jim
Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After having masterfully taken them for a ride, having brought them down to an effigy, he rolls them up and throws them out the window. But the policemen come back to life and the chase goes on. Pickpock, caught a second time, locked up behind heavy bars, finds a new way of escaping and imprisoning in turn the policemen.
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An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
This is a funny variation on a chase farce as a pickpocket escape from les flics by use of a lot of camera tricks. Although they are crude to the modern eye, they are executed with excellent speed and fine humor.More than that, this short subject is an example of a stage of importing Georges Melies' pure trick film into the film grammar that was now becoming standard. Melies had directed several versions of the Haunted Castle, Inn and Restaurant and his work had already been widely imitated by Edison, Pathe and Walter Booth. Those efforts, however, offered these transformations and left the audience to provide their enjoyment through them alone and the very crude slapstick of seeing a random stranger being baffled. In this variation, however, they serve the purpose of enabling the pickpocket to escape. Thus they become part of the film's grammar rather than the film's subject.
