A look at the Charley Chase Silent Movie Collections on DVD
Charley Chase was long considered an unfairly overlooked comedy master of the 20s and 30s. After he started to get more recognition,...
DVD Review: Charley Chase – The Hal Roach Talkies Volume One
Most mainstream DVD releases are corporate affairs, capitalizing on what is popular in our immediate culture. Others have a sense of...
Selected Short Subject: Goin Fishin (1940) Our Gang
Most people know the story of Our Gang, a comedy series at the Hal Roach studios about mischievous kids that began in the silent era and...
Selected Short Subject: Little Daddy (1931) Our Gang
When the Hal Roach-produced Our Gang comedies were re-edited and released to television by King World, their new distributor, there were...
Snub Pollard in The Bum's Rush
The Bum’s Rush (1927) Directed by James Davis. Starring Snub Pollard, Mavis Clare, Otto Fries, Dick Gilbert, Max Asher, Bobby Nelson....
Butter Fingers (1925) is Mack Sennett at his best
Butter Fingers (1925) Directed by Del Lord. Cast: Billy Bevan, Madeline Hurlock, Ruth Taylor, Andy Clyde, Kewpie Morgan, Barney Hellum,...
Eddie Lyons solo comedy from 1922
Eddie Lyons was part of a comedy team with Lee Moran during the 1910s. Their many short subjects and handful of feature films for...
Looking at a DVD of less-known silent comedies
With so many public domain companies offering grainy prints of films without copyright, I approached the 2007 VCI Entertainment's DVD...
Larry Semon's "The Grocery Clerk" (1919)
The Grocery Clerk Written and Directed by Larry Semon Cast: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Monty Banks, Frank Alexander, Frank Hayes,...
Buster Keaton: The Short Films Collection. DVD/blu ray review
Kino has released another DVD set of Buster Keaton silent short films, "Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection (1917-1923)." All of the...