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by Ed Watz
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary
Replies: 4
Views: 750

Re: POKER WIDOWS (1931) Arthur Stone, Patsy O'Leary

I like your straightforward analysis, Richard. If you made an audio commentary track for this bupke, I think you could turn it into something hilarious. But I wouldn't want to put you through that kind of torture - seeing this twice!
by Ed Watz
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:11 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: HOLD YOUR BREATH (1921) Charles Dorety, Bert Roach
Replies: 4
Views: 586

Re: HOLD YOUR BREATH (1921) Charles Dorety, Bert Roach

Is that Jerry Mandy by any chance?
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by Ed Watz
Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: CARRY HARRY (1942)
Replies: 1
Views: 1403

Re: CARRY HARRY (1942)

Harry's career in 1942 seemed to be on a modest but genuine rebound; currently on eBay is this cast & crew still from the PRC feature HOUSE OF ERRORS, a good little comedy that serves Harry and his screen partner Charley Rogers particularly well. It also marks the final film appearance of lovely...
by Ed Watz
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: CARRY HARRY (1942)
Replies: 1
Views: 1403

CARRY HARRY (1942)

Harry Langdon is our eponymous hero in this delightful late Columbia short, which begins around the 5:40 mark after an introduction. Directed by his old friend and collaborator Harry Edwards, it's clear that Langdon had a hand in the writing as he reuses gags from both THREE'S A CROWD and THE CHASER...
by Ed Watz
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:49 am
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood
Replies: 2
Views: 2016

Re: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood

It's interesting that Sherwood actually mentions the effects of the bomb: the loss to his right hand. Yes indeed. It's not the first mention in the press of Harold's hand injury (those reports came soon after the occurrence in 1919) but Sherwood's account appeared when Lloyd was at the height of hi...
by Ed Watz
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: Research Archive
Topic: Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood
Replies: 2
Views: 2016

Harold Lloyd by Robert E. Sherwood

"Harold Lloyd himself is not a great comedian - not to be compared, individually, with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, W.C. Fields... He has no genius for pantomimic clowning; his humor, at all times, is reliant upon the surrounding situations. But he has something that all these...
by Ed Watz
Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:26 am
Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
Topic: New York: Harpo Marx Returns from Russia (1934) Paramount Newsreel
Replies: 0
Views: 10824

New York: Harpo Marx Returns from Russia (1934) Paramount Newsreel

"HARPO COMES HOME Harpo, Marx Brothers silent member, returns from stay in Russia. Asked his opinions, he keeps them all under his hat."

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by Ed Watz
Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
Topic: THE DEFENDERS (1962) Bert Wheeler, William Shatner guest stars
Replies: 1
Views: 3795

THE DEFENDERS (1962) Bert Wheeler, William Shatner guest stars

SiCom Mafia might be the only site where the poster makes a bigger fuss about Bert Wheeler's late tv appearance over a pre-Star Trek Bill Shatner. Thanks to my brother for sending this episode my way, that Wheeler & Woolsey book I sent him 30 years ago came in handy when he saw this online. Bert...
by Ed Watz
Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: MAX COMES ACROSS (1917) Max Linder
Replies: 3
Views: 8049

Re: MAX COMES ACROSS (1917) Max Linder

Here's yet another brief excerpt from the elusive MAX COMES ACROSS, sent to me by a friend who found it from she-doesn't-remember-where, and possibly had it in her possession for several years now. It appears to be a tattered print filmed off television but at this point I'm grateful to see anything...