Unseen for 90 years, it is in these six surviving shorts that Charley meets his greatest leading lady, lovely Thelma Todd, and gets himself into some very pre-code situations including spending the night with a cabin loaded with a bevy of beautiful girls, evading passes by his girlfriend’s mother, and doing interesting things with a mule! Who can resist Thelma Todd in a skimpy leopard Danskin?
3-Disc Set: Charley Chase returns with Volume Three, featuring his last three years of comedies for the Lot of Fun and some of the best sound shorts he made for Hal Roach. Charley at his most surrealistic in films like “Another Wild Idea,” “Public Ghost No. 1,” and “Life Hesitates at 40,” great gag comedies like “It Happened One Day,” and “Fate’s Fathead,” and we even have him cloned in multiples for “Four Parts.”
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
STAN AND OLLIE LOOK AND SOUND BETTER THAN EVER! In new 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate sources, Laurel and Hardy’s classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Bonus Extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files • Commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann • Film and audio interviews with L&H co-workers • Alternate soundtracks, music tracks, trailers • Almost 9 hours of EXCLUSIVE rarities!
After falling from Hollywood stardom at the end of the Silent Era, quirky silent film comedian Harry Langdon made not only his first talking films, but also his first screen comeback with a series of eight two-reelers for comedy producer Hal Roach. This pre-code collection offers an interesting and entertaining look for the only time in sound as the undiluted comic creation he made famous in silent films.
Charley Chase returns in Volume Two of his 17 classic Hal Roach talkie comedies from the years 1932-1933. Lots of great laughs in a transition period for both the comedian and Hal Roach’s Lot of Fun. Special Features: Commentary by Richard M Roberts; “Una cana al aire” (4-reel Spanish version of 1930’s “Looser than Loose”); and Poster and Still Gallery
These sexy, pre-code two-reel comedies showcasing Thelma Todd’s timeless beauty and impeccable comedic ability. that wowed audiences during the Depression, tickling their funny bones as well. This collection brings together all of the films from the first collaboration with Zasu Pitts.
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Josephine Baker captivated audiences through stage, recordings and motion pictures, and you’ll see why in “The French Way,” a farcical romantic-comedy set in contemporary WWII France, about young lovers forbidden to marry by their respective families. Baker, as “Zazu,” the owner of a nightclub, inherits a job restoring harmony between the two families and allowing the young lovers to se marier. A lost film – exquisitely restored!
This 2-DVD collection of 18 hilarious comedy shorts are as timelessly funny today as when they were originally released and feature a great, but somewhat neglected comedian, Charley Chase, in some of his prime work. Charley Chase was one of the most popular comedy stars in both the silent and sound eras.
| Jungle Girl and the Slaver: Liane, a legendary white girl, lives in the jungle (a female Tarzan wannabe with conch shell-covered breasts) who somehow is the key to bringing “primitive” tribes together in a united front against slave traders.
Wild Women of Wongo: The island of Wongo is inhabited by beautiful women, but the men are ugly brutes! On the island of Goona, it’s just the opposite – the men handsome and the women are hags! When the two islands meet – the Wongo women are ready to go capture some mates!
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Two forgotten screwball comedies originally released by 20th Century-Fox.
Let’s Live Again: Do you believe in reincarnation? An atomic scientist does, now that his brother (killed in a plane crash) has returned as a mongrel.
The Gay Intruders: The theater world thinks of John and Maria as the romantic lovers they play on stage, but when the curtain comes down, blood pressures go up for the forever-fighting husband-wife team.
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The kings of silent comedy triumphantly return in this compilation reprising some of their greatest moments brought together by famed documentarian Robert Youngson. See comic geniuses Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Fatty Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, the Keystone Kops, The Sennett Bathing Beauties, and dozens more work their magic in the golden age of movie comedy. High-Def digital transfer from the original negative. Plus, Special Added Features
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A special 6 hour 2-DVD collection of short comedies, forgotten little gems of laughter from the Weiss Bros., featuring several genuine comedy greats plying their trades for the last time before talkies came in. Featuring Ben Turpin, Snub Pollard, Poodles Hanneford, Izzy and Lizzie, Jimmy Aubrey, Hairbreadth Harry.
From the original 35mm negatives – Great Piano Accompaniment – Special Features!
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Cut-rate “If this vans rockin’, don’t bother knockin’” classic for teensploitation schlockophiles. It’s all here: jocks, boogie boardin’, a candy ass doofus, and plenty of shag van vs. four wheelin’ gangs with elevated hormones. The “acting” makes “Police Academy” seem like “Becket” in comparison, and everything else is bottom of the barrel, too. With lines like “I’m Rachel, fly me,” you can’t miss. So what if Ms. Magazine won’t give it any awards?
After Six Days (1922): Touted at the time as a “$3,000,000 Entertainment for the Hundred Millions,” this 1920 Old Testament spectacle delivered what it promised…”from the creation of Adam and Eve to the parting of the Red Sea.”
Yesterday and Today: Veteran funnyman George Jessel is our host and narrator for this light-hearted look-back at the early and often humorously primitive days of motion pictures circa pre-1910. The majority of film sequences benefit from not having much exposure, if any, since their original release, and most are featured in longer excerpts unlike the usual compilations of this type.
Kentucky Jubilee: A wild potpourri of hillbilly singers, dancers and specialty acts (including the Y-Knot Twirlers!); strung together by a crazy plot that involves a pop-eyed emcee (funnyman Jerry Colonna).
The Kid From Gower Gulch: Spade Cooley plays a singing-western movie star who can neither sing nor ride, but a rancher believing that Spade is the real deal, bets 500 cattle that he can win a rodeo contest!
Hollywood Varieties: The advent of television brings back vaudeville, as emceed by Robert Alda (who also sings “Be There My Love”). Acts like the Hoosier Hot Shots, Sandy and His Seals, Hector and His Pals, The Four Dandies and Twirl, Whirl and a Girl resurrect that great entertainment medium of the past.
Holiday Rhythem: It’s the top-tappin’ fun-time of a lifetime when singer-dancer David Street bumps his head and dreams that he’s on a trip around the world, and seeing great variety acts at each port. A Dixieland band, a mambo orchestra, a “Rhythm on Ice” show and
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones! – Songs (including “Is Your Rent Paid Up in Heaven?”), buck-and-wing and softshoe are all part of the nostalgic fun. Cotton & Chick Watts, Ches Davis, F.E. Miller, Billy Green and the Hobnobbers.
Square Dance Jubilee: New York television talent scouts (Don “Red” Barry and Wally Vernon) head west to look for musical talent for Spade Cooley’s TV show and find plenty–and even help round up some cattle rustlers! With a whopping 21 songs.
EVERYBODY’S DANCIN’ : Dance hall owner Dick Lane, in desperate need of name attractions, is helped by country music legends who agree to star in a TV special at his emporium.
VARIETIES ON PARADE: It’s vaudeville on film as the camera passes a box office and ticket taker, proceeds to a front-row seat, and watches as master of ceremonies.
Attention, fans of vaudeville, minstrel shows and vintage musicals – 8 movies/4 DVDs.
- Everybody’s Dancin’
- Varieties on Parade
- Yes Sir, Mr. Bones!
- Square Dance Jubilee
- Hollywood Varieties
- Holiday Rhythm
- Kentucky Jubilee
- The Kid from Gower Gulch.
The hilarious true story of Hollywood’s underbelly…the exploitation films, as told in rare film clips and interviews with the original purveyors of passion! It’s all about the wages of sin and the folks who earned them! With footage from these naughty classics: “Forbidden Daughters,” “They Wear No Clothes!,” “Reefer Madness,” “Child Bride,” plus “Mom and Dad” and more.
DELINQUENT SCHOOLGIRLS: Our protagonists in this K-Mart budgeted cult film are escapees from an insane asylum! One is an ex-baseball player turned rapist, another is gay, and the ringleader is a low-rent impressionist. When they stumble upon an all-girls school, antisocial behavior with these siliconed “students” ensues, but with a twist — the busty babes know karate!
DREAM NO EVIL: A deranged young woman searches for her non-existent father, when “Daddy” comes to life on a morgue galley he scalpels his mortician to death!
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This sexy shipboard romp about two women who are pregnant but don’t know which of the husbands is the father resulted in a headline-grabbing photo spread in Playboy Magazine. Comic Fritz Feld gives Tommy Noonan a pill to help him become a father … was this the original “blue pill?”
Extra: Uncensored on the set Photo Shoot – includes photos used and not-used by Playboy Magazine
Man Beast: Himalayan climbing expedition are led into the mountainous lair of the ape-like Yeti.
Wild World of Batwoman: Holy rip-off, a way-out tale of Batwoman.
Curse of the Stone Hand: A twin-pack of south-of-the-border shudders!