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Self Defense... for Cowards

Self Defense... for Cowards

6,7 /10 (4 Votes)
1962 EN 8 min

Overview

In a series of vignettes, we see how to "win" a barroom fight by such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, enlisting the help of a large, intimidating friend, etc.

Release date

01/01/1962

Votes

4

Popularity

0.7

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

8 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-04-19

⭐ 6

This is quite an amiable feature, but the jokes have been too strung-out and even at just eight minutes long, it seems over-stretched. For openers, we head to a bar where a rather slight man finds he is prone to being picked on by the "Bluto" - or perhaps "Blotto" character in the bar. He just has the wrong face in the wrong place and it usually ends up bruised before he ends up on the ground. The wily narrator has come up with a series of solutions that might just deflect his aggressor's attention. Ranging from fainting to screaming to hysterical laughing, each of these half dozen or so scena…

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