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Take a fun filled trip back to a bygone era with the greatest silent comedians of all time. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Ben Turpin and Snub Pollard were just a few of the comedic geniuses who spread laughter and happiness to millions accross the world. Without having to speak a single word, their crazy antics had us in stitches. Theirs was a world of zany situations, uproarious sight-gags, fast-paced car chases and elaborately staged pranks. Director Robert Youngson chose from hundreds of hours of vintage film clips to bring you the funniest scenes from these comedy greats.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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An essential film
This is the second of 8 compilations constructed by Robert Youngson in the late 1950s and 1960s for cinema release. These films plundered a neglected archive (Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, etc.), and far from being a mere recycling exercise, they beautifully showcase a very special part of Hollywood history. More than that, however, they are key part of the Laurel and Hardy story, helping as they did to build a renaissance of their work.
Without Youngson's passionate love of vintage comedy, many early Laurel and Hardy movies would have been lost forever. It was with his efforts that films such as 'The Battle of the Century', which contains a glorious mass-fight deploying 3000 pies, were saved: when Youngson found the negative, much of the second half of this historic movie was close to ruin. Other films were better preserved, and Youngson took care always to use the original negatives. Since most had lain unseen in decades, the freshness and pristine quality of the prints all contributed to the serious critical re-evaluation of Laurel and Hardy's work. Their magnificent two reel films from the thirties were also playing to large audiences on television, and suddenly Stan and Ollie were stars again. This much-deserved upsurge in their fortunes included a long overdue honorary Academy Award.
'When Comedy Was King' also features essential work by Chaplin, Keaton, Harry Langdon, the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chase, Edgar Kennedy, the Mack Sennett Girls and the wonderful Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Youngson's style was to carefully blend forgotten classics mixed with the lesser known and even downright obscure. This DVD is currently pretty rare considering its quality, and anyone with a keen interest in Hollywood's golden age should buy it.
The films in the Robert Youngson series are: The Golden Age of Comedy (1958); When Comedy Was King (1960); Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961); Thirty Years of Fun (1962); MGM's Big Parade of Laughs (1964); Laurel and Hardy's Laughing Twenties (1965); The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (1967); and Four Clowns (1970).
This is the second of 8 compilations constructed by Robert Youngson in the late 1950s and 1960s for cinema release. These films plundered a neglected archive (Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, etc.), and far from being a mere recycling exercise, they beautifully showcase a very special part of Hollywood history. More than that, however, they are key part of the Laurel and Hardy story, helping as they did to build a renaissance of their work.
Without Youngson's passionate love of vintage comedy, many early Laurel and Hardy movies would have been lost forever. It was with his efforts that films such as 'The Battle of the Century', which contains a glorious mass-fight deploying 3000 pies, were saved: when Youngson found the negative, much of the second half of this historic movie was close to ruin. Other films were better preserved, and Youngson took care always to use the original negatives. Since most had lain unseen in decades, the freshness and pristine quality of the prints all contributed to the serious critical re-evaluation of Laurel and Hardy's work. Their magnificent two reel films from the thirties were also playing to large audiences on television, and suddenly Stan and Ollie were stars again. This much-deserved upsurge in their fortunes included a long overdue honorary Academy Award.
'When Comedy Was King' also features essential work by Chaplin, Keaton, Harry Langdon, the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chase, Edgar Kennedy, the Mack Sennett Girls and the wonderful Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Youngson's style was to carefully blend forgotten classics mixed with the lesser known and even downright obscure. This DVD is currently pretty rare considering its quality, and anyone with a keen interest in Hollywood's golden age should buy it.
The films in the Robert Youngson series are: The Golden Age of Comedy (1958); When Comedy Was King (1960); Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961); Thirty Years of Fun (1962); MGM's Big Parade of Laughs (1964); Laurel and Hardy's Laughing Twenties (1965); The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (1967); and Four Clowns (1970).
2 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Dont bother! It is full of top class artists displayed at their very worst.
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