Jeffries Jr. (Film)

• 1924 silent movie starring former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries and Charley Chase in his Jimmy Jump characterization. A Hal Roach Production, not too long after Harold Lloyd left the fold, finds Charley learning the fine art of self-defense from the great champion. This can be found on the "Becoming Charley Chase" DVD. As the title of this DVD intimates, Charley wasn't the Charley we came to know later on. He is funny in it, and it is photographic documentation of a former great champion.
• Plot (from IMDb): "Chase is a young weakling (perhaps prefiguring the 'nance' twist he would later develop for his character) who seeks to get Jeffries to train him, and that is the extent of the plot. Chase injects some very good comedy here, including a running gag involving a pair of glasses that same him from every fight he almost gets into and an amusing sequence with a mirror, but mainly the basis is that Charley can't train to be quite the boxer that the former champion is. Fun as this is for the only ten minutes the short runs, there does seem to be a missed opportunity for some of the situation-based humor the Chase was expert at, and which he'd already proved did work well enough in the one-reel format."
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