Classic American Silent Comedy short films on video featuiring CHARLIE CHAPLIN, CHARLIE CHASE, EDGAR KENNEDY, BUSTER KEATON, BEN TURPIN, HAROLD LLOYD, LARRY SEMON, SNUB POLLARD, MAX LINDER and Minta Durfee, Alice Davenport, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Frank J Coleman, Alice Howell, Billy Armstrong, Martha Golden, Charles Insley, Paddy McGuire, Leo White, Wesley Ruggles, Charles Bennett, Chester Conklin, Al St. John, John Rand, Georgia Hale, Fatty Arbuckle, Emma Clifton, Oliver Hardy, Corliss Palmer, Beth Darlington and Eddie Baker, Wallace Beery, Marion Byron, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire, Tom Lewis, Florence Turner, Ann Cornwall, Snitz Edwards, Joe Keaton, Marion Mack, Natalie Kingston, Vernon Dent, Alberta Vaughn, Jack Cooper, Madeline Hurlock, Tiny Ward, Jackie Lucas, Vernon Dent, Franklin Pangborn, Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee, Bebe Daniels, Mildred Davis

 


 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


CHARLIE CHAPLIN



VOLUME 1

THE IMMIGRANT-Charlie is on his way to America and spies a young immigrant girl on the shiop.
THE COUNT- Charlie impersonates a count.
EASY STREET- As a cop, he's assigned to "Easy Street"; the toughest neighborhood in town.

(Mack Swain, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell also appear in these shorts) 60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-218-0
$19.95


VOLUME 2

THE PAWNSHOP-Charlie has a run-in in the pawnshop.
THE ADVENTURER-As an escaped convict, he runs for his life but falls in love.
ONE A.M.-Sneaking into the house just a "bit" late and trying tokeep from waking the Mrs.

(Edna Purviance, Frank J Coleman and Eric Campbell also appear in these shorts)
60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-219-9
$19.95


VOLUME 3

THE CURE- He checks into a sanitarium.
THE FLOORWALKER- Tango with a store detective,
THE VAGABOND- A tramp's serio-comic life.

(Edna Purviance Frank J Eric Campbell and Mack Swain also appear in these shorts) 60m Silents with added scores.
ISBN 1-55881-220-2
$19.95


VOLUME 4
BEHIND THE SCREEN- Is where he shouldn't look.
THE RINK- As a waiter, he calculates the bill by what customers have spilled on their ties.
THE FIREMAN- Charlie in an arson scheme.

(Edna Purviance, Frank J Coleman. Eric Cambell and Mark Swain also appear in these shortsl
60m Silents with added musicscores.
ISBN 1-55881-221-0
$19.95


VOLUME 5

THE KNOCKOUT-Boxing like it can't possibly be! Watch for the Keystone Cops; Chase, Swain, Campbell, Kennedy).
DOUGH AND DYNAMITE-Chalie as a baker.
THE TRAMP- Charlie as a boxer who goes to work for a woman on her farm.

60m Silents with added music scores. ISBN 1-55881-222-9
$19.95


VOLUME 6

MAKING A LIVING- Charlie as a villian with a top hat ?! Say it isn't so !
LAFFING GAS- Charlie as a dentist.
NEW JANITOR- Charlie working afterhours to foil office theives.
BUSY DAY- Charlie in drag ! What a man
KID AUTO RACE- Charlie vs a film crew trvins to film a race.
MABEL'S MARRIED LIFE- Mavck Swain vs Charlie over his wife, Mabel Normand.

(Minta Durfee, Alice Davenport, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain and Alice Howell also appear in these shorts)
110 minutes. Silents with added music scores. ISBN 1-55881-223-7
$19.95


VOLUME 7

WORK- (aka THE PAPERHANGER) He misses the wall and papers his partner. POLICE- As a released convict he's trying--emphasis "trying"--to go straight.

(Billy Armstrong, Martha Golden, Charles Insley, Paddy McGuire, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Wesley Ruggles and John Rand also appear in these shorts)
60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-224-5
$19.95


VOLUME 8

TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE-Charlie as a city slicker lures a country Girl (Marie Dressier) into a money making scheme. (Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett, Chester Conklin and Al St. John also appear)

60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-457-5
$19.95


VOLUME 9

THE GOLD RUSH-The Tramp joins the Klondike gold rush in search of wealth and love. Considered by many to be Chaplin's best; includes the famous shoe eating sequence!

(Georgia Hale and Mack Swain also appear)
85m 60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-458-2
$19.95


VOLUME 10


THE MASQUERADER-Charlie as an unemployed actor lands a female role! (The inspiration for "Tootsie"?)
CAUGHT IN A CABARET-As a waiter in a cabaret, Charlie saves a socialite and then lives to regret it.
BETWEEN SHOWERS-Charlie and battles Villain Ford Sterling in the rain and mud.

(Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chase, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, Charles Murray, and Alice Davenport also appear in these shorts)
60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-459-0
$19.95


VOLUME 11

THE FATAL MALLET--Featuring a stellar cast: Chaplin, Mack Swain and Mack Sennet as rivals for Mabel Normand's affections.
HIS TRYSTING PLACES--Charlie as a henpecked husband married to Mabel Normand who thinks he's carrying on with Mack Swain's Wife.
GETTING AQQUAINTED--Follow Carefully: Charlie is Married to Phylis Allen but loves Mabel Normand whose husband, Mack Swainis really in love with Phyllis...with us so far? Too bad because there is more; the cop and the knife wielding Russian...


60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-460-4
$19.95


CHARLIE CHASE



VOLUME 1
LONG FLIV THE KING- Chase as lord king and emperor of a small country wherehe national passtime is killing the king!
BROMO AND JULIET- Charlie performs Shakespear

(Oliver Hardy and Corliss Palmer also appear in these shorts)
60m Silents with added music scores. ISBN 1-55881-225-3
$19.95


VOLUME 2
LOOKING FOR SALLY- Back from Paris, Looking for Sally and for love.
HARD KNOCKS- A poor bank teller falls for a girl.

(Beth Darlington and Eddie Baker also appear in these shorts)
50m Silents with added music scores. ISBN 1-55881-226-1
$19.95


BUSTER KEATON



THE THREE AGES

Hilarious send-up of Griffith's Intolerance. Cross cutting between three separate stories (set in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome & modern times), Keaton proves that chasing women is one thing that has never changed. Featuring Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery & Oliver Hardy.

1923 80 min.Silent film with added music score. ISBN: 1-55881-492-2
$19.95


STEAMBOAT BILL

Buster Keaton, Marion Byron, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire & Tom Lewis. The son of a riverboat captain would much rather be off somewhere else. A turbulent romance & a hurricane bring about the climax.

1928 100 min.Silent film with added music score. ISBN: 1-55881-494-9
$19.95


COLLEGE

After delivering a speech denouncing athletes, Buster the bookworm is off to college where he falls in love with a woman who admires athletic he-men. Needless to say, he changes his views & heads off to join every sporting team with hilarious consequences. Buster Keaton, Florence Turner, Ann Cornwall & Snitz Edwards.

1927 94 min. Silent film with added music score.ISBN: 1-55881-493-0
$19.95


THE GENERAL

Buster is the conductor of the General, an important line to the Confederate Army. When it is hijacked by Union spies, he sets off to retrieve it. Considered one of the best silent feature comedies. Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton & Marion Mack. National Film Registry.

1926 106 min.Silent film with added music score. ISBN: 1-55881-495-7
$19.95


BEN TURPIN

VOLUME 1

THE DAREDEVIL- Ben as a movie stuntman. (The studio's only hope is that he does himself in).
THE EYES HAVE IT- Ben's gone fishing. (The fish have nbothing to worry about).
YUKON JAKE- Ben's a Mountie and Canadian law enforcement goes to hell in a handbasket.

60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-235-0
$19.95


HARRY LANGDON

VOLUME 1

ALL NIGHT LONG
- Recalling love in the Army.
SMILE PLEASE- Photographer shoots his wife's family (literally!)

(Natalie Kingston, Vernon Dent, Alberta Vaughn, Jack Cooper, Madeline Hurlock, Tiny Ward and Jackie Lucas also appear in these shorts.)
60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-230-X
$19.95


VOLUME 2

LUCKY STARS-Harry pursues his dream of becoming a doctor and tangles with a quack (Vernon Dent) and vamp Natalie Kingston.
STAURDAY AFTERNOON-Harry, married to Alice Ward, is accident prone; He accidentally gets into a date with a pretty woman and then accidentally ends up riding in two cars with one leg in each...ouch!

60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-461-2
$19.95


HAROLD LLOYD

MILKY WAY

Lloyd as a mild mannered milkman who accidentally knocks out the champ and then becomes a hot contender. Directed by Leo McCarey. Cast; Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou.

1936 83 min. ISBN: 1-55881-114-1
$19.95


SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK
(Reissued as Mad Wednesday in 1950)

This film opens up with the climax sequence from the 1923 classic "The Fisherman". Harold is a mild mannered accountant who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. Unfortunately, losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he has his first drink, passes out and finds himself the owner of a small circus. Direction and script by Preston Sturges. Cast; Harold Lloyd, Edgar Kennedy, Franklin Pangborn, Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Kennedy, Margaret Hamilton. Photo; Robert Pittack. Music; Werner R. Heymann . Co-Produced by Sturges and Howard Hughes.

1936 90 min. Sound Film. ISBN: 1-55881-115-X
$19.95

VOLUME 1

THE CHEF- Working in a fully automated restaurant where all he does is press a button and nothing could possibly go WrONg...
THE CINEMA DIRECTOR- Harold runs a theater into the ground, beats up a patron and does mortal combat with a reel of film.
I'M ON MY WAY- Groom has second thoughts about married life. (Snub Pollard and Bebe Daniels also star in these shorts)

55m. Silent film with added, copyrighted music score.
ISBN 1-55881-231-8
$19.95


VOLUME 2

HAUNTED SPOOKS- Harold and his girl move into a house supposedly haunted.
HIS ROYAL SHYNESS- Intrigue at the King's court. (Mildred Davis, Harry Pollard and Wallace Howard also star in these shorts)

60m. Silent film with added, copyrighted music score.
ISBN 1-55881-232-6
$19.95


LARRY SEMON

VOLUME ONE

THE SAWMILL-Larry as a logger being chased by his boss.
THE DOME DOCTOR-Deli owner and next door beauty parlo owner feud.

60min Silent films with added music score. ISBN 1-55881-234-2
$19.95


SNUB POLLARD

VOLUME ONE

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE- by challenging the world's boxing champion.
SOME BABY- Snub is unwillingly made an instant dad.

Silent film with added, copyrighted music score.
60m Silents with added scores. ISBN 1-55881-233-4
$19.95


MAX LINDER

 


SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK

Max Linder was one of the silent screen's earliest comedy stars. His films had delighted French audiences since 1907. In 1916 Linder came to Hollywood and made Seven Years Bad Luck, which would becomehis most popupar and fondly remembered film. The plot is simple enough. Max, debonair clutz--about--town, breaks a mirror and brings on the proverbial seven years of bad luck---all at once! The story serves to showcase Linder's amazing comical talents. For the first time, audiences saw comic routines and scenarios that would later be recreated and reinterpreted by great comedians including the Groucho Brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

A historically important, entertaining silent comedy.

Highly Recommended. Written, directed by, and starring Max Linder.

USA 1920. 85 minutes. Silent film with added, music score.
ISBN 1-55881-489-2
$19.95


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