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How can you not love a comedy about a lovable sledgehammer swinging maniac? Rare Essanay Snakeville comedy released September 2, 1915, shot in Niles by Roy Clements, with Harry Todd, Margaret Joslyn, Victor Potel, Ben Turpin, and Robert Mckenzie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3m5S5Gt3M RICHARD M...

This definitely comes under the "I never thought that I would see" category, but veteran British actor James Mason once made an appearance on Sesame Street! Go to the link, and hit it around the 6:00 point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5-MwrAKOo&list=PLxCJKstemFmwJEw90PDPfRqjJCF8R...

Joseph McBride published his veil-lifting and controversial biography of Frank Capra, THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS in 1992, a fascinating and enlightening read that debunked the myths of Capra’s basically fictional and self-serving autobiography THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE, showing Capra to have been ess...

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Why waste everyone's time with Nitwitvile lame guesses, it's THE RUSE (1915).

RICHARD M ROBERTS

So today Gebert tries to open his yap and show he knows even less than Bruce Calvert about this whole subject, even cluelessly making some nonsense claims that I am "switching the goalposts" in some comparison that Calvert never made to begin with. Calvert said the Weiss Brother comedies w...

You know, I have nothing particularly against Bruce Calvert, a reasonably reasonable fellow, but since he persists in being part of the Nitwitville nerdcount , he’s going to have to take his lumps just like the rest of them, especially when he is engaging in the standard Nitratevile practice of pull...

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RICHARD M ROBERTS

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And Tommie, I enjoy a good dog scene stealer all the time. I forget who it was but I remember a poodle coming into some comic's scene and peeing on his leg! LOL You'd think a censor would have snipped that! – SteveR Monty Banks had his whole short WEDDING BELLES (1924) stole out from under him by P...

Hi Rob & Richard. Thanks for tipping me off to that great collection of clips. Just wanted to say that long clip of Monty Banks from FOB Africa is a gem. - SteveR Indeed it is, but I hate to say my biggest laugh is in Arte's identifying sub-title for the Weiss Brother Pollard-Loback ONCE OVER, ...