Arbuckle Gags in B Westerns
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:29 pm
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 before doing Kaiser Wilhelm, I guess he might have changed it to Hitler, but that would have been equally anachronistic for a western too.
We've been going through a number of good B Westerns of late, and it's marvelous to see both St. John in the PRC's and Andy Clyde in the Hopalong Cassidys keeping the Silent Comedy Traditions alive in the Saddle.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
We've been going through a number of good B Westerns of late, and it's marvelous to see both St. John in the PRC's and Andy Clyde in the Hopalong Cassidys keeping the Silent Comedy Traditions alive in the Saddle.
RICHARD M ROBERTS