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This Silent Classic DVD of “The Golden Age of Comedy”. Youngson’s affectionate, nostalgic retrospective of the Golden Age of Silent Comedy Starting out with the earliest moving images that show people having fun, Highlighted performers include Billy Bevan, Charles Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Charley Chase, Andy Clyde, Carter DeHaven, Vernon Dent, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel and ‘Snub’ Pollard with special attention to the acknowledged comic geniuses of the period, especially Laurel an Hardy, are given credit as the great innovators of slapstick visual comedy.
The First Robert Youngson Compilation of silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Act One – The Laugh Factory. Featuring several Mack Sennett comedies. Films included are The Hollywood Kid, Wandering Willies, Musclebound Music, Wall Street Blues and Circus Today.Act Two – Nobody Liked Them But The Public. Laurel and Hardy comedies, including Habeas Corpus, The Second Hundred Years, We Fawn Down and the famous climactic pie fight from The Battle of The Century.
Act Three – The Cowboy Who Became a Legend. Featuring Will Rogers in Uncensored Movies.
Act Four – Two Unforgotten Girls. Featuring Carole Lombard in Run Girl Run and Jean Harlow in the Laurel and Hardy comedy Double Whoopee.
Act Five – The Great Actor. Highlighting Ben Turpin in several shorts he made for Mack Sennett.
Act Six – A Comedy Classic. Laurel and Hardy’s Two Tars.
Act Seven – So Funny, So Sad. An extract from a Harry Langdon comedy, The Luck O’ The Foolish.
Act Eight – Animal Comedy. Several examples of humour from animals such as dogs, cats and lions, with Billy Bevan, Charley Chase, Andy Clyde, Harry Gribbon and Kewpie Morgan. Titles featured include The Sting of Stings and Nip and Tuck.
Finale – Two Men On a Street. The shin-kicking, pants-ripping street battle sequence from Laurel and Hardy’s You’re Darn Tootin’.
Run time of 79 minutes. Comes brand new sealed in Slim Plastic DVD Case.
Video FormatNTSCXCase TypeTall/DVD CaseXRatingNRXSub-GenreBuddy, Dark Humor, Family, Silent, Slapstick, Action, Adventure, FantasyXEditionWidescreenXAspect Ratio16:9XTypeMovieXFormatDVDXRegion CodeDVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)XLanguageEnglishXRelease Year1957XActorLaurel and HardyXFeaturesFull Screen, Black & WhiteXGenreComedyXCountry/Region of ManufactureUnited StatesXMovie/TV TitleGolden age of comedyX
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