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Well, the roadside ad gag is in both the French 9.5mm version and the Glenn one, but the Glenn print had Big Joe walking free from the front of the jailhouse. That little bit seems to be unique to the Glenn version.
Richard

How do you play a banjo, cornet, and guitar all at once? With great difficulty, Richard. That's why I'm retired. Incidentally, I'm perfectly happy with you disagreeing with me disagreeing with you, even if I think YOU'RE wrong etc. etc. drone zzzzzzzz....... Glad we agree on a couple of orchestras a...

Richard, I think that appreciation of accompaniments to silent films is a very subjective thing. I happen to like Mont Alto's scores a lot. I've just finished watching Cut To The Chase and, for me, Mont Alto's scores were the best of the lot and certainly not comedy-killing. The accompanists I reall...

Richard, the groveling / banning stuff was intended as humour, or "humor" as you folks in the Colonies will have it. I don't care what everybody else says about you, I think you're just a pussycat. Your comment about Ship Ahoy is very interesting - I was very surprised when I first saw thi...

You know, I hate to say this, but is it just me, I think it's you, Richard! Surely, the discovery of around 4 minutes of "new" Keaton footage from any era is important, if not quite in the "Thief Catcher" class, and John's researches are VERY interesting. However, in order to av...

In Steve Massa's Lame Brains & Lunatics book, there is a photo of Arbuckle on location with the cast of The Iron Mule. He certainly looks like the man in charge!

Richard W.

Same problem here, Jim. The trouble is, which to read first? I think I'll put the names in a hat...
Richard

Oh no! ANOTHER essential purchase! Just ordered via Amazon UK. It's like the piggy bank scene from The Cameraman here.....

Can't wait. Just ordered from Jack, who always ships to the UK very quickly. Why haven't Volumes 2 & 3 been published yet? Stop slacking, Roberts!

The book is now up on Amazon UK too. Just ordered. What with this, Richard's new book and the Cinemuseum projects, it looks like I'm going to be happy for some time to come. Impoverished, but happy.