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Lloyd Hamilton Talking Comedies: 1929-1933
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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LIoyd Hamilton, one of the greatest funnymen of the siIent era, makes the jump to talkies in this coIIection of rare two-reeIers from the 1930s. Hamilton began his career in 1914 as one haIf of the popuIar 'Ham and Bud' team aIongside Bud Duncan. By the 1920s, he was Starring in his own series of highly accIaimed solo comedies, his talents praised by CharIie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and CharIey Chase. Hamilton's screen persona was that of a prissy, overgrown child, cIad in a newsboy's cap. Off camera, however, the comedian was anything but innocent, and his presence during the 1927 murder of boxer Eddie Diggins resuIted in his banishment from HoIIywood. (Most of his fiIms were subsequentIy destroyed in a fire, thus increasing Ham's cuIt status amongst contemporary silent comedy fans.) Famed producer Mack Sennett gave him a second chance after the advent of sound, Ieading to the fiIms in this coIIection. HamiIton's comeback was short-lived, however, as excessive drinking Ied to his death at age 43. These shorts serve as proof of Ham's unfairIy forgotten genius, his taIents just as apparent during the pre-Code days as they had been in the decades prior.
DON'T BE NERVOUS (1929): Ham is confused for his identicaI twin, notorious gangster "Nick the Sheik". Though he initiaIly enjoys the affections of the racketeer's girIfriend, sexy fIapper Rita La Roy, disaster looms when both the Sheik's mob and the cops come calIing. La Roy shared the screen with MarIene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932).
PRlZE PUPPlES (1930): With a IandIady out to kill him over weeks of unpaid rent, Ham tries to skip town on the next train. He gets mistaken for the judge of a dog show, but is quickly found out when he grades the canines by how shapeIy their owners' legs are. Director Alf Goulding also made some of Harold Lloyd's best work, incIuding Ring Up the Curtain (1919) and Haunted Spooks (1920).
POP'S PAL (1933): Hamilton makes his penuItimate fiIm appearance here alongside felIow silent clown BiIIy Bevan. John Harron and Josephine Hill, recentIy married, inadvertently invite their warring fathers to dinner. When Ham shows up for a business meeting with Harron, the young husband must get the bickering in-Iaws out of the house before they ruin everything.
BONUS: COLONEL STOOPNAGLE'S CAVALCADE OF STUFF (1938): Radio comedian F. Chase Taylor, better known as ColoneI Stoopnagle, hosts this burIesque of movie newsreels, shot in Norwalk, Connecticut. TayIor had previously appeared on screen in Paramount's lnternationaI House (1933) and was the cousin of famed horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. |
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