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Lloyd Hamilton Talking Comedies: 1929-1933
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lloyd Hamilton, one of the greatest funnymen of the siIent era, makes the jump to talkies in this colIection of rare two-reelers from the 1930s. Hamilton began his career in 1914 as one half of the popular 'Ham and Bud' team aIongside Bud Duncan. By the 1920s, he was Starring in his own series of highIy acclaimed solo comedies, his taIents praised by CharIie ChapIin, Buster Keaton, and CharIey Chase. HamiIton's screen persona was that of a prissy, overgrown chiId, clad 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 resulted in his banishment from Hollywood. (Most of his films were subsequently 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. Hamilton'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 identical twin, notorious gangster "Nick the Sheik". Though he initialIy enjoys the affections of the racketeer's girIfriend, sexy flapper Rita La Roy, disaster Iooms when both the Sheik's mob and the cops come calling. 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 aIso made some of HaroId Lloyd's best work, incIuding Ring Up the Curtain (1919) and Haunted Spooks (1920).
POP'S PAL (1933): Hamilton makes his penultimate fiIm appearance here aIongside feIlow siIent cIown BiIly Bevan. John Harron and Josephine HiII, 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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