# "Cut to the chase"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-to-the-chase/299273>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 14, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-to-the-chase/299273 "2005-04-14T12:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-to-the-chase/299273/41 "2005-04-23T03:57:06Z")

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I was thinking that’s what they meant but the reviewer seems to be caught up in the coolness of the image (which IS cool) at the expense of coherence. Thank you for sharing that. I will see if my library has that book.

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**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-to-the-chase/299273/42 "2005-04-24T12:32:29Z")

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> [@Governor Quinn](#):
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> I prefer _Far Up West_ and _The Minor Difficulty_, myself.
> 
> Pity that no print of _That Common Girl_ survives.

One of the great silent directors, and co-founder (with Douglas Piffleburg, Mary Furgnitz, and the great clown Charlie Mahecknahay) of Loosely-Associated Hacks, one of the great early Hollywood studios. He was often a welcome guest at the FurgPiffle mansion, to the delight of the Hollywood press.

Sadly, after such classics as [Tonsils of the Neighborhood](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009150/), his career was never to recover from the failure of his historic epic, [Luxembourg](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014672/). Him being a dedicated master of the silent medium, a discomfort with the addition of sound is evident in his first talkie, the presidential biopic [Millard Fillmore](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020620/). He was to retire from directing not too many years after, a broken man.

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