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Big City Blues

Big City Blues

7,0 /10 (3 Votes)
1962 EN 20 min

Overview

Big City Blues is a 1962 English-Dutch language short film written and directed by Charles Huguenot van der Linden. Two drunk men chase a girl and a young boy chases a rabbit, leading to horrific consequences. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Release date

07/05/1962

Votes

3

Popularity

0.6

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

20 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-04-18

⭐ 6

There's a lot of the Lewis Carroll to this silent drama, and though for a few minutes that intrigues for the remainder of this really quite repetitious twenty minutes I struggled to get to grips with what the purpose of this film is/was/might be. It starts with a gent sitting in the back of what is obviously a police car, and then shifts to a young girl playing with her white rabbit. A young lad appears and begins to chase her through a building that looks to be under construction whilst she chases her pet. Meantime, in the same building a couple of drunks are sleeping off their excesses when …

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