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Dear Mafia Members--- Thank you for re-opening the registration to this site. My name is David Hennessy and I have been enjoying your site for a while. My question for you all is this: I was wondering how much credit should be given to Leo McCarey in the creation and development of Laurel and Hardy...

Gary Johnson wrote: In fact, of the trio of great comedians who ended up at Jules White's Gin Mill, I would say Chase fared best. Oh, absolutely; there's no WHAT MAKES LIZZY DIZZY lurking in Chase's Columbia canon.[/quote] Which begs a question, what is the WORST Columbia short of all time? (and I ...

Quoting Gary Johnson: "That was one of the reasons I put off grabbing the Betty Boop Essential DVD's that have been coming out earlier in the year. I kept reading on animation blog sites that the consensus was that after Olive Films released all of the Boops volumes individually they would turn...

Part of what is so annoying about Lorusso’s pronouncements (and Bob Fells as well, whom I must correct myself in stating that it was he, not Lorusso, who thought Bing Crosby “sad” after 1950, oh well, there is plenty of stupidity to go around over at Nitratevile, who can keep track of it all?) is th...

A Michigan theater is looking for this Glenn Tryon Universal comedy since it was the openning night feature in 1927. Anyone here know? (I'll bet they do!) Yes, it does. Unfortunately, I only have an 8mm print of it, but there were original Show-at-Homes and dupes thereof. I'll see if I can dig one ...

Pasquale Ventura wrote:With Ray Mckee. Lot's of shipboard gags going on in this one. When Kewpie cranks the car, he really cranks the car!
Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBhrn0bOdE

Anyone know the real title of this?

LOVE'S LAST LAUGH (Sennett- Pathe' released October 3, 1926).


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Hey, now here we go. Ed Lorusso continues to be Ed LaAsshole as he now has declared Fred Astaire's pipes to be painful to his ears (Gene Kelly's as well): "As much as I love the Rogers & Astaire musicals, I never thought Astaire was believable for a moment as the apple of Ginger's eye. He w...

No, it wasn't the spirit of Christmas, it has just been that it's so damn deadly dull over there at Nitratevile that I haven't really looked that hard at anything to make fun of. But they do have a winner of a topic over there today: Top Ten Things Dumb People Say When Watching Silents Today. at Nit...

Well, we can't let El Brendel be the only one wishing all the Mafians a Merry Christmas.


So Merry Christmas.







RICHARD M ROBERTS

Late Sidney and Murray in a pre-Jules White Columbia, look for Walter Brennan as the drunk in the beginning.










RICHARD M ROBERTS