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2004
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Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown...
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1970
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1967
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Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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1940
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This especially wacky Three Stooges short was directed by comedian Charley Chase. The boys are traveling salesmen in the...
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1939
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This Three Stooges short was one of four directed by comedian Charley Chase. The boys play dog-groomers who use a conveyor...
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1938
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Comedian Charley Chase not only directed this two-reel farce, one of the Three Stooges' most popular, but also contributed a...
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1938
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1938
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As in their earlier False Alarms (1936), the Three Stooges play firemen in this two-reel farce directed by comedian Charley...
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1938
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In his fifth two-reeler for Columbia, Charley Chase plays a soda jerk with an overwhelming passion for detective magazines....
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1937
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1937
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This was one of Charley Chase's last comedies for producer Hal Roach. Here, Charley is determined to attend his local movie...
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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Dr. J. Willoughby Klum
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Charley Chase suffers through the vacation from hell in this hilarious two-reeler. He drives to California with his wife...
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1936
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A truly clever short feature in which Charley Chase (who also co-directed) plays four siblings, each one in a different...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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This Charley Chase short opens with a song, "You've Gotta Give Credit to Love." But love won't solve one dilemma Charley and...
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1934
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Directed by Hal Roach Studio comic Charlie Chase, this two-reeler is by many considered the best of the 16 Thelma Todd-ZaSu...
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1933
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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Charley
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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1932
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In this entry in the Charley Chase series, Charley decides to write a national anthem for the little country of Nicarania...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Originally released on March 28, 1931, the "Our Gang" comedy "Little Daddy" is no longer available in the "Little Rascals" TV...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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In this three-reel sequel to 1930's High C's comedian Charley Chase is shown once again as a soldier, released from the brig...
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1931
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This is deservedly one of Charley Chase's most popular two-reelers. Charley's pal (Carlton Griffin) tries to set him up on a...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Two wives catch their husbands with other women and decide to take a vacation of their own in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1931
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This Charley Chase talkie was expanded to three reels to include five songs (Chase had a nice singing voice). It's a WWI...
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1930
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1930
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In this entry in the Charley Chase series, Charley falls in love with a beautiful country girl (Thelma Todd). In his zeal to...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1929
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Two-reel comedy producer Hal Roach was too busy switching over to sound in 1929 to bother with making feature films, which is...
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John Jones
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1929
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1929
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Jewish comic Max Davidson stars in this Hal Roach farce that would most likely have been completely forgotten had not Stan...
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1927
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It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly...
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1927
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Charley Chase will do just about anything to marry his sweetheart Madge (Corliss Palmer) in this amusing two-reeler. So she...
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1926
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Stuart Holmes spent much of the 1920s playing villains. He even played them in comedy two-reelers for Hal Roach. Here, he...
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1926
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In one of his best silent films, Charley Chase plays homely Mr. Moose, whose buck teeth make him a laughingstock. But Mrs....
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Mr. Moose
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1926
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Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this routine silent Western which boasted of...
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1926
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This entertaining Charley Chase comedy features an old star (pretty Gladys Hulette, whose career was on its downslide) and an...
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1926
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1926
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Easily one of the fastest and funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Thundering Fleas is set in motion with a sidewalk...
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1926
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1926
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1925
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Charley Chase stars in this amusing Hal Roach-produced short. Although she has no reason to doubt Charley, his wife...
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1925
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Charley Chase plays a young married man with a suspicious wife (Katherine Grant) in this Hal Roach silent. The couple's car...
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1925
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In this silent two-reel comedy, Charley Chase is getting ready to wed the lovely Katherine Grant. But when his jealous rival...
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1925
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One of Charley Chase's co-stars in this comic short is Oliver Hardy. The two comedians knew each other from other studios,...
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1925
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1925
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This Hal Roach spoof of The Unholy Three starred Charley Chase. Chase, Katherine Grant, and Bull Montana all aspire to be...
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1925
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Jimmy Jump
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1924
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Jimmy Jump
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1924
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The beloved humorist Will Rogers, whose own series of Hal Roach two-reelers was produced concurrently with the studio's Our...
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1924
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Producer Hal Roach was known for his comic shorts; however, his first foray into the world of features wasn't a comedy, but a...
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1924
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1923
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Metro pulled out all the stops on this picture, which was based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart and starred...
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1923
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1922
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1919
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Many years before either of them wound up at the Hal Roach studios, Oliver Hardy and Charley Chase both spent time working...
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1918
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1916
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1915
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1915
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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1914
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 29th comedy for Keystone was one of his most popular, grossing $130,000 in its initial year of release. It...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race,...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's musical career is as a piano mover for a music store in this, his 31st comedy for Keystone. The film was a...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 24th short for the Keystone company is a film about making films at Keystone. It is unusual in that we see...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 25th Keystone comedy is a park farce on the same order as many of his earlier shorts. It opens with a...
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Nephew
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1914
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1914
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