Sunday Calm

{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Sunday Calm | image = Sunday Calm FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption = | director = Robert F. McGowan | writer = Hal Roach H. M. Walker | producer = Hal Roach | starring = Joe Cobb Jackie Condon Mickey Daniels Jack Davis Allen Hoskins Ernest Morrison Leona Levin Richard Daniels Clara Guiol Helen Gilmore | narrator = | cinematography = | editing = | music = | distributor = Pathé Exchange | released = {{Film date|1923|12|16}} | runtime = {{duration|m=25|s=18}} | country = United States | language = Silent English intertitles | budget = }}

'''''Sunday Calm''''' is a 1923 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SundayCalm1923.html |title=Silent Era: Sunday Calm |accessdate=September 12, 2008|work=silentera}}</ref><ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226138/Sunday-Calm/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520151309/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226138/Sunday-Calm/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Sunday Calm |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |accessdate=September 12, 2008}}</ref> It was the 20th ''Our Gang'' short subject to be released.

==Plot== The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. After the cart loses a wheel, the parents replace it, only to be left behind when the horse bolts with the wagon and the gang. Arriving in the woods, the gang run wild until their parents catch up with them. A storm interrupts the picnic, after which the horse bolts again, this time leaving everybody behind.

==Production notes== Mary Kornman does not appear.<ref name="maltin"/>

The plot device of a family embarking on a Sunday picnic was reused in Laurel and Hardy's 1929 film ''Perfect Day''.<ref name="maltin">Maltin, Leonard and Bann, Richard W. (1977, rev. 1992). ''The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang'', pp. 25-26. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. {{ISBN|0-517-58325-9}}</ref>

==Cast==

===The Gang=== * Joe Cobb — Joe Tucker * Jackie Condon — Jackie Tucker * Mickey Daniels — Mickey McTeeter * Jack Davis — Jack Tucker * Allen Hoskins — Farina * Ernest Morrison — Ernie * Leona Levin — Mickey's sister

===Additional cast=== * Richard Daniels — Mr. Tucker * Clara Guiol — Mrs. Tucker * Helen Gilmore — Mrs. McTeeter

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{Internet Archive short film|id=SundayCalm1923OurGangSilentFilm|name=Sunday Calm}} *{{IMDb title|id=0235798|title=Sunday Calm}}

Category:1923 films Category:1923 comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Robert F. McGowan Category:Hal Roach Studios short films Category:Our Gang films Category:1923 short films Category:1923 American films Category:American silent comedy short films