A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.
Stan Laurel
- Stan
- (archive footage)
- (as Laurel)
Oliver Hardy
- Ollie
- (archive footage)
- (as Hardy)
Ben Turpin
- Rodney St. Clair
- (archive footage)
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Did you know
- GoofsThe narrator cites a clip of Laurel and Hardy as coming from "We Slip Up." Laurel and Hardy never made a movie with that title. The actual movie referenced is We Faw Down (1928).
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA Srl: "CAVALCATA DELLA RISATA (1957) + LA BOMBA COMICA (Ça c'est du cinéma, 1951)" (2 Films on a single DVD, with "Ça c'est du cinéma" in double version, with alternative cut titled "I terribili antenati di James Bond"), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Dare-Devil (1923)
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not the best introduction to the silent clowns
This well-meant but misleading compilation celebrates the glory days of silent film comedy, for the most part through mediocre excerpts from the Max Sennett and Hal Roach Studios, which even at their peak could never match the sophistication of a Chaplin, Lloyd, or Keaton two-reeler. The repertory of Sennett and Roach gags rarely extended beyond mild parody, primitive slapstick, and artificial trick effects, giving an entirely false but lasting impression of silent comedy as nothing but frantic pratfalls and pie fights. The exception here is Laurel and Hardy, whose deliberate methods of wreaking mayhem overturned the time honored formula of fast and furious chases. Happily, the film gives them extra attention, but the majority of footage is devoted to second-rate clowns like Billy Bevan and cross-eyed Ben Turpin. Even the great Harry Langdon is represented only in a clip from a minor Sennett short which gives little indication of his unique talents, and the enthusiastic voice-over narration underlines his lackluster antics with forced wit and too many puns.
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- mjneu59
- Nov 23, 2010
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- The First Kings of Comedy
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) officially released in Canada in English?
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