Search found 425 matches
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 4:03 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bowler hat/derby in slapstick comedies
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8073
Re: Bowler hat/derby in slapstick comedies
I'm not sure you will ever find a definitive first use of a bowler hat for comedic purposes since they were doubtless handy props in vaudeville. In Laurel & Hardy's 1927 Do Detectives Think?, their hats are meant to connote that they were tough gumshoes. But I think when you go back to the firs...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:08 am
- Forum: THE PASSING PARADE
- Topic: Carl Davis RIP
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16448
Carl Davis RIP
He created some of the most beautiful scores for the silents. Here in Germany his theme for Kevin Brownlow's HOLLYWOOD is being heard over the radio every day since his passing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... oser-dies/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... oser-dies/
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:59 am
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10472
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
I haven't seen Armilly in quite some time. Is there a scene with a slingshot or a gun being fired in Tom's direction? Not that I recall, Rob - but if memory serves Tom Wilson wears an eyepatch over his right eye in AMARILLY - something I had previously attributed to his "tough guy" role i...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10472
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
Hello Film Friends! Hope all of you are well. Joseph Blough has been posting some great and RARE stuff over the last couple years! Ed! I tried to post an article from January 5, 1918 titled: TOM WILSON LOSES EYE IN ACCIDENT But will have to give you some of the text instead. In part: (Wilson) "...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10472
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
Rob Farr wrote: He may just have been wall-eyed. But Ed, I'm interested in what you thought of it? Even considering that Masquers' shorts had to cram in as many out-of-work comics as possible, to my eyes its prime pre-Code W&W. I'm with you Rob, this is top-notch Wheeler & Woolsey all the w...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:20 pm
- Forum: SOUND COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10472
Re: OH! OH! CLEOPATRA (1931) sound AND film
Here I am, big Wheeler & Woolsey advocate and all that, just having watched OH! OH! CLEOPATRA, and my question is: does anyone know whether Tom Wilson had a glass eye? His eyes often appear slightly crooked in his major silent roles but the bit he performs with them here (if this is indeed Tom W...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Frank Thompson's THE COMPLEAT BEAU GESTE on sale now
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16845
Re: Frank Thompson's THE COMPLEAT BEAU GESTE on sale now
My 5-star review just appeared on Amazon (12 reviews are posted, all of them give 5 stars to this superb book): https://www.amazon.com/Compleat-Beau-Geste-Frank-Thompson/dp/0998769959/ref=sr_1_1?crid=52N2QWMZ6784&keywords=compleat+beau+geste&qid=1691652728&sprefix=compleat+beau+geste%2Ca...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: SILENT MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Frank Thompson's THE COMPLEAT BEAU GESTE on sale now
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16845
Re: Frank Thompson's THE COMPLEAT BEAU GESTE on sale now
I just received my copy this morning from Amazon. Spending several hours with it I can honestly say that THE COMPLEAT BEAU GESTE is an amazing, engrossing and comprehensive book covering every film related to BEAU GESTE, plus a whole lot more. It reminds me of Kevin Brownlow's THE PARADE'S GONE BY i...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:20 am
- Forum: SOUND MOVIE MAIN
- Topic: Billy Bevan & Jimmy Finlayson FOR THE DEFENSE 1930
- Replies: 0
- Views: 26143
Billy Bevan & Jimmy Finlayson FOR THE DEFENSE 1930
William Powell-Kay Francis Paramount drama with a cute silent cameo by Billy Bevan at the 21-minute mark. Jimmy Finlayson crops up 43 minutes in, a substantial straight role in which Fin loses his Scottish burr. (William McCall and Rolfe Sedan spotted early on in the juror box.) https://youtu.be/rSF...
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: Books, DVDs, Broadcasts & Screenings
- Topic: Flicker Alley - Laurel & Hardy: Year One - Blu-ray
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17572
Re: Flicker Alley - Laurel & Hardy: Year One - Blu-ray
As much as I am looking forward to these beautiful restorations, I'm hoping that the obnoxious, ten-ton orchestration to THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (found on the L&H Definitive Restorations set) is not repeated here. Talk about trying to be funnier than Laurel & Hardy!