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Slight misunderstanding here, Al did not hate the westerns, he hated performing all the stunts and the painful bike tricks. He had been having trouble with pain from stunts for many years. First time I saw him expressing having problems coping with the pain from stunts, was already back in 1919. Bu...

Al often pull out his silent day gags in the westerns. In Outlaw Country (1949) he did both headspin and 360 frontflip. He could still do many of those really crazy falls well into his 50s as well as his bicycle stunts/tricks, but that being said, he hated doing all of it. He had not much of a choi...

Was watching the 1945 PRC western SHADOWS OF DEATH today and it was fun watching Al "Fuzzy" St. John recycling a number of the Barber gags from THE BELLBOY (1918) and elsewhere. He even did the "shaving the bearded guy into Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln" bit, but stopped b...

Try googling "Chic Sale." Lots of fashion boutiques. Video Yesteryear released the full feature length version (5 reels?) at the "correct projection speed" - 73 minutes - on VHS as The New School Teacher (googling that gets you a lot of porn sites}. http://com.miami.edu/movie/44...

Grapevine's bonus short for their dvd of Guardians of the Wild (1928) is this mystery two-reeler, listed on silentera.com w/o the hyphen. Grapevine's facebook page is requesting help i.d.'ing it. A SCOUTING WE WILL GO is a Chic Sale Comedy from the early 1920's. It's from a very obscure series that...

Richard - How many years before your Roach book comes out? A man can only live so long ;-) Funny you should mention that Andrew, we're actually wrapping up the index and putting the final layout to bed as we speak, and I believe it should be out certainly in time for us to hock it at Slapsticon nex...

Okay, so now that all these Sennetts have run on TCM, the question has to be: How many weeks until Jim Neibaur's book on Mack Sennett comes out?


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Recently watched THE GREAT TOE MYSTERY (1914). Great to see a younger Charley Chase (as Charlie Parrott, I presume) in one of his first leading roles; with Alice Howell, Dixie Chene?, Rube Miller? This brings up an interesting question, perhaps. Was Charley ever billed on-screen other than as Chase...

Okay, I know some of you Mafians watched this stuff last night....start typin'!


RICHARD M ROBERTS

If we truly want to make sure that the record is set right, start writing about Capra's pecking order in the Langdon hierarchy -- as a young, talented, junior gag writer -- and stop immediately elevating him to the status he would later achieve in the Thirties. It acts as a disservice to all that L...