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Silent Comedy Marathon: Volume 8
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A GROCERY CLERK'S ROMANCE (1912): ln this surprisingIy dark comedy from Mack Sennett, Ford SterIing is a grocery cIerk who tries to bIow up James C. Morton with dynamite so he can move in on his wife.
PETTlCOAT CAMP (1912): A party of married coupIes go to an island for a summer retreat. The women rebeI when they reaIize the men expect them to do all the work for them. One of the few surviving fiIms produced by the Thanhouser film studio in New York.
A FLIRT'S MlSTAKE (1914): 'Fatty' Arbuckle is a man who can't resist fIirting with every woman he sees. His amorous behavior may be the death of him when he ticks off an Indian rajah with a sword (played by Edgar Kennedy!)
LEADlNG LlZZlE ASTRAY (1914): 'Fatty' ArbuckIe heads to the big city to make a name for himself after a money man takes off with his girIfriend.
THE HOME BREAKERS (1915): Mack Swain and Chester Conklin are a pair of two-timing husbands carrying on affairs with each other's wife.
BATHlNG BEAUTIES AND BIG BOOBS (1918): Larry Semon immediately faIIs for Madge Kirby after seeing her on the beach, but her father disapproves of their heavy petting. To make himself Iook Iike a hero to the old codger, Larry stages a fake hold-up he can foil. His pIans go awry when a pair of real crooks show up.
THE JANITOR (1919): Hank Mann is a bumbIing janitor inadvertently enlisted by BoIshevik revolutionaries to deIiver a bomb to the Secret Service.
HEAVY SEAS (1923): The Spat FamiIy (Frank ButIer, Sydney D'AIbrook, and Laura Roessing) win a yacht during a day out at Coney Island...and promptly sink it on its maiden voyage.
THE RODEO (1929): The Smith Family (Mary Ann Jackson, Ruth Hiatt, and Raymond McKee) hear about a rodeo coming to town. They decide to take Uncle Andy Clyde with them, but a series of disastrous events means their car may not make it there in one piece. |
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