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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1962
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began...
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1958
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Republic's Swingin' on a Rainbow utilizes a plotline that had already done service in several of the studio's previous budget...
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Chester Willoby
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1945
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1944
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A lesser East Side Kids effort, Block Busters looks more like an elongated 2-reel comedy than a 6-reel feature. This time,...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn...
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1942
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In this comedy, funny Langdon and Rogers end up working at a bean factory and getting into deep trouble when they...
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1941
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from...
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Henry Butler
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1941
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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1941
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1940
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1940
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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Prof. McCrackle
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1939
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Twenty years after the Armistice, doughboy Stan Laurel continues guarding a trench in France--simply because no one told him...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon...
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Otto
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1937
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This comedy was directed by the once great silent comedian Harry Langdon. It is about two hoboes who have a sudden change of...
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Director
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1937
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Having fallen from grace at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll retreated to Columbia Pictures, known in 1935 as...
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Snapper
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1935
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1935
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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Egghead
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1933
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1933
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1933
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The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page...
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Cupid
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1933
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1931
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In this WW I comedy, several young men decide to join the army. Each one has his own reason for joining up. Songs include:...
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Tim
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1931
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1930
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In this Harry Langdon two-reeler, Langdon plays a mild-mannered gas-station attendant. Through a series of misunderstandings,...
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1930
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Silent-screen comedian Harry Langdon was the darling of the critics in 1927, but his career quickly lost momentum, and by the...
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Wally
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1930
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1930
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This Harry Langdon two-reel comedy is set in a tough Western town. Harry rides into town, and is mistaken for "The Fighting...
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1930
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1930
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1929
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1929
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1929
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A patriotic German American attempts to prove his loyalty to the U.S. (and also impress the gal he loves) by enlisting in the...
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Director, Harry Van Housen
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1928
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Achieving "critic's darling" status with three well-constructed starring features, baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon became...
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Director, Husband
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1928
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Few comedies of the 1920s were as bizarre and surreal as Harry Langdon's Long Pants. Having recently come of age,...
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Harry Shelby
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1927
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After achieving success in the mid-'20s, Harry Langdon decided to emulate the silent era's premier comedian -- Charles...
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Director, The Odd Fellow
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1927
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Baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon plays a timorous fireman in His First Flame. Much of the action involves Langdon's efforts...
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Harry Howells
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1926
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When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to make features for First National, he wisely brought along...
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Producer, Harry
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1926
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The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to mention first feature-length...
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Harry Shelby, the Boy
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Baby Face Harry Langdon is a videocassette collection of selected Mack Sennett two-reelers starring pasty-faced comedian...
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1926
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Although Harry Langdon was nearing his peak as a two-reel comedian (in just a few months he would graduate to features), not...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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