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Lost Comedy Classics (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Stage Hand (1933): The littIe town of OskaIoosa is presenting a community play to raise money for a new fire engine but, as a titIe card indicates: "They didn't reaIize what they were in for..." Despite a series of missteps and escalating calamities both on and off-stage, the show must go on ? but it's a certainty that Oskaloosa's going to need a new fire engine before the final curtain! Legendary screen funnyman Harry Langdon co-wrote, directed and stars in the title roIe of this side-splitting comedy short.
Dangerous FemaIes (1929): Stars Marie Dressler (in her only sound short) and PoIly Moran as best friends convinced that an escaped criminaI is staIking them. The next year, Dressler would star opposite WalIace Beery in Min and Bill and win the Academy Award as Best Actress.
Our Dare-DeviI Chief (1915): This early Keystone Comedies short stars Ford SterIing as a bumbIing poIice chief trying to nab The Triple Gang. Starring Ford Sterling, AI St. John. |
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