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In an island where nobody works, the local Pindóca returns from India, where he studied to be a fakir and magician, and became crazy. Wearing top hat, cutaway coat and walking stick, he is completely different from the locals, being chased by two clumsy policemen.

This weird, crazy, silly and naive comedy is a rip-off of the American comedies, with Pindóca clearly imitating the movements of Charles "Carlitos" Chaplin. Filmed between Urca and Leblon, including the interior of a slum, and showing many women butts, the story does not make much sense and is suddenly finished and is available only in the Cinematec of MAM (Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro).. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Maluco e Mágico" ("Crazy and Magician")

The fist five minutes portrays repeatedly adults playing as children, kids mocking on them, and surprising close-ups below the waist of the women (considering this film was released in early 1927). Then, Pindóca, the crazy fakir-wizard, is announced, and the film became slightly more veried. The women kept doing the same, but they also laughed on Pindóca, who runned in a clumsy way, annoying men. After policemen who chased him fought each other, Pindóca joined a drunkard. There is a celebration, and we see a little more women playing, policemen chasing Pindóca and the magician running in a clunsy way but with tricks. The slapstick film directed, written and starred by William Schocair in Rio de Janeiro is a complete nonsense, but there are some sophisticated edition, letterings with texts from 1927 are somewhat funny, and I loved the two small scenes with the mountains seen in 90°.