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- Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bowler hat/derby in slapstick comedies
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7949
Re: Bowler hat/derby in slapstick comedies
I'm not sure you will ever find a definitive first use of a bowler hat for comedic purposes since they were doubtless handy props in vaudeville. In Laurel & Hardy's 1927 Do Detectives Think?, their hats are meant to connote that they were tough gumshoes. But I think when you go back to the first...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10100
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
I haven't seen Armilly in quite some time. Is there a scene with a slingshot or a gun being fired in Tom's direction?
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10100
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
He may just have been wall-eyed. But Ed, I'm interested in what you thought of it? Even considering that Masquers' shorts had to cram in as many out-of-work comics as possible, to my eyes its prime pre-Code W&W.
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 12:21 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10100
OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
The final Wheeler & Woolsey holy grail. Thanks Gino Cuddy, Joseph Blough, and the British Film Institute. https://youtu.be/s4kbRLpNV_M
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: IRENE DUNNE, WILL HAYS and SHEMP!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6712
IRENE DUNNE, WILL HAYS and SHEMP!
This has been around for awhile, but where else are you going to see Shemp Howard share the screen with Will Hays? Sadly, no slapping ensues. https://youtu.be/jtcnJmNDztM
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: ON THE FIRE (1919) w/ Harold Lloyd
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2998
ON THE FIRE (1919) w/ Harold Lloyd
A rare one-reeler with Harold, Bebe, Snub and Bud Jamison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MffATcFwsA
- Sat May 27, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC TELEVISION
- Topic: Third Man Spoof (1986, BBC Channel 4)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19182
Third Man Spoof (1986, BBC Channel 4)
And excellent and well-produced parody of The Third Man with Robbie Coltrane doing a creditable Orson Welles impression. From the British series, Saturday Live. https://youtu.be/PLosYtiZDdk
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: DARKENED ROOMS (1929) w/ Gale Henry
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12498
DARKENED ROOMS (1929) w/ Gale Henry
In her last sound feature, Gale Henry has a beefy role as Madame Silvara, a phony spiritualist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xarxQOSfUDY
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Poodles and Grace Hanneford at Frontier Town (1962)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1419
Re: Poodles and Grace Hanneford at Frontier Town (1962)
Nice color footage. I guess by this time, Poodles was well past his bareback riding days.
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: RIO RITA trailer with Bert Wheeler number cut from reissue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8233
Re: RIO RITA trailer with Bert Wheeler number cut from reissue
And it is interesting that Wheeler was billed as a single here.