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Lane's loop-de-loop stunt at 18:31 is one of the greatest in film comedy history.

After reading early reports that the animosity between Stan and Babe were underplayed and only marginally figured into the plot, I was surprised that the emotional arc of the whole damn film hinged on their mutual antagonism. I'm not saying to avoid the film, but if you know Laurel & Hardy’s his...

Apparently it's going to have its world premiere in Venice and then on Netflix in November. Nice to see the quality of Welles' footage has been preserved. Trailer here.

Her imdb page is here, and her lasting achievement was playing the cute Ouilotta Hemoglobin in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Of interest to the Arizona mafioso, she spent her final years in Phoenix. Did anyone meet her?

Wow! Lots of Brother Theodore to explore. Thanks.

I "get" most performers even if I don't find them funny or moving. I never got Brother Theodore. He didn't seem like he was playing a nutty character, like Professor Irwin Corey or Rip Taylor. He seemed to be genuinely paranoid/schizophrenic. And it felt like the height of cruelty to be pa...

The most interesting part is that we always assumed that Prof. Bosco was meant to be a completely different character. Now we know it's an older Charlie beaten down by poverty. Kind of chilling.

Someone on Facebook said that they saw another version with footage from Sons of the Desert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AapRK62 ... e=youtu.be

Thank you Paul. I know that Herculean work must be going on behind the scenes.

Thanks to Nelson Hughes, who posted this on Facebook, and "eArtFilm", we can see the final screen appearance of Marcel Perez appearing as a one-legged cowpoke in Lash of the Law aka When East Meets West (1926). Perez also directed. The entire film survives at the Library of Congress in a 1...