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by Rob Farr
Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:50 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: Sacred Cows
Replies: 13
Views: 30403

Sacred Cows

Steve and Ben's MoMA series got me thinking. Silent comedy had no problem tackling race, sex, war, ethnicity, capital punishment, homosexuality, terrorism (usually in the form of bomb-throwing anarchists), drug abuse, cannibalism, murder, insanity, white slavery, death, etc. etc. But what were the s...
by Rob Farr
Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:01 pm
Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
Topic: May and Harry... They Were So Great Together
Replies: 2
Views: 9518

Re: May and Harry... They Were So Great Together

And the scene just screams 1914. Puts me in mind of Joe Adamson's famous comment about "the Myrna Loy westerns of Alfred Hitchcock". That's what happens when a Fox publicity hack returns from a 3-martini lunch.