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There is also Max Linder's version in SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK which had it's moments. I just like the way that McCarey stages both versions with Chase and the Marxes. And he must had to since many of the same shots from SITTING PRETTY are in DUCK SOUP. (Although, was he calling the shots yet behind th...

It sounds as though the ever-popular Mirror Routine was being beaten to death during the mid-1940's: in 1944 Bob Hope & Victor McLaglan do their version in THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE, in '45 it's Lou Costello & Joe Sawyer in NAUGHTY NINETIES, and then in '46 it's this Errol Flynn picture! ...

So we're watching NEVER SAY GOODBYE (1946), a minor Errol Flynn Warners comedy with a Christmas theme last night, and in the middle of it, he and Donald Woods, both dressed as Santa Claus, do the Mirror Routine! So add this one to the list with Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, The Marx Brothers, and ...

Okay Fellow Mafiosi, here's wishing You and Yours (and Them and Theirs) a Happy Holiday Season! A Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Kool Kwanza, or whatever reason you have to get drunk, eats good food, buy presents, and say, maybe wish your fellow human well at the end of the year. Here's to a better...

I just acquired a print of Lloyd Hamilton's Wedding Belles. Head/tail credits and set up is missing. Footage is 600 feet approx. with some splices due to editing. Cast includes: Gertrude Astor, Arthur Housman, and Eddie Gribbon. Plot: Ham is on an Ocean liner trying to get his girl. I thought this ...

A Very Happy Thanksgiving. Richard, I know that you aren't a huge Lloyd fan, but the turkey on the trolley sequence in that one screams holiday almost as much as the later scenes of wanting to get rid of one's In-Laws. Agnes McFadden Who the holy heck says I'm not much of a Lloyd fan? He may not be...

Wishing you all in the mafia a very Happy Thanksgiving indeed. Somewhere, someone should be showing, A BIRDS A BIRD (1915), PASS THE GRAVY (1928) and perhaps BRING HOME THE TURKEY (1927), but oddly enough, it won't be me. Though we might be running THE GIANT CLAW (1957), thats always struck me as a ...

Perhaps not a comic legend, but his passing should be noted, especially after all the Lippert Pictures he was in:


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/arts/ ... l?src=recg


RICHARD M ROBERTS

I have 16mm prints of GIRLS FROM EVERYWHERE, THE CAMPUS CARMEN, AND MATCHMAKING MAMAS. RUN GIRL RUN was available from Blackhawk, so there are a number of prints of it floating around.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Kudos to Paul Gierucki and Cinemuseum for the newly restored version of THE GARAGE (1920) that was broadcast on TCM in the wee hours this morning. This restoration, that utilized original print materials from David Shepard/Serge Bromberg, Myself, and others put together the most complete version of ...