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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 23 2007, 06:48 PM Post #1 |
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Here's my silent DVDs that you won't find elsewhere in my collection... SILENT FILMS The American Slapstick Collection (17 shorts) Arbuckle, Fatty: The Forgotten Films Arbuckle & Keaton, Vol. 2 Bare Knees Beatrice Fairfax Blind Husbands (silent) / The Great Gabbo (talkie) The Blot Bowers, Charley: The Complete Collection The Call of Cthulhu The Cat and the Canary (1927) Charley Chase: The Collection Vols. 1-2 (Kino) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) It’s the Old Army Game Langdon, Harry: The Forgotten Clown The Strong Man Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Long Pants Stan Laurel Collection (France, 16 shorts) Harold Lloyd Collection (Kino, 8 films) The Last Laugh (1925) The Man who Laughs Manslaughter / The Cheat The Mark of Zorro / Don Q, Son of Zorro The Matinee Idol / Frank Capra: American Dreamer Metropolis (1927) Special Edition Nosferatu The Phantom of the Opera: Ultimate Edition Slapstick Encyclopedia (5 discs) Tarzan and the Golden Lion The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Trapped by the Mormons Wolf Blood World War I Films of the Silent Era |
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| Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | Sep 23 2007, 07:45 PM Post #2 |
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Gravy, If you can recommend a source for a good DVD transfer of It's the Old Army Game, I'd much appreciate it. I saw it screened at The Cinevent one year, and I've wanted to add it to my collection (along with the other W.C. Fields films that have not been officially released). Thanks as always, Ignatz |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 23 2007, 07:55 PM Post #3 |
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I have a very nice copy of this movie... surprisingly nice. It came from Sunrise Silents, whom you will find at www.sunrisesilents.com. |
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| igsjr | Sep 24 2007, 04:35 AM Post #4 |
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Like Ignatz, I'd also like to obtain a copy of It's the Old Army Game--but I went to the website you named and they don't seem to offer it anymore. :angry: |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 24 2007, 05:07 AM Post #5 |
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Well, y'know, here in the Balcony our advice as always been "go while you're young. Don't wait." Do I need to tell you about the uncle of mine who jumped out of an airplane? Try emailing them. |
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| igsjr | Sep 24 2007, 05:47 AM Post #6 |
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Why would your uncle jump out of a perfectly good airplane? |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 24 2007, 06:57 AM Post #7 |
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He trusted that he would land on a haystack on a farm below. |
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| igsjr | Sep 24 2007, 07:09 AM Post #8 |
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Interesting... While I'm waiting for a reply, I couldn't help but notice that you left out the Weiss-O-Rama DVD on your silents list. I just finished watching it this weekend and while overall it was pretty much a mixed bag, I was entertained by several of the shorts--particularly the "Hairbreadth Harry" entries. Oh, and while I was e-mailing Sunrise Silents, I wandered over to Grapevine Video and bought three DVDs: Beggars of Life, Hands Up! and His First Flame. Mom says I can't associate with you anymore, LG. She says you're a bad influence. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 24 2007, 07:20 AM Post #9 |
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Weiss-O-Rama didn't get on my list because I didn't remember to put my "new DVDs to review" from the top of my TV on any of the lists! *slaps forehead* |
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| igsjr | Sep 24 2007, 07:57 PM Post #10 |
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Well, I took Gravy's advice and e-mailed Rich at Sunrise Silents. He says they discontinued It's the Old Army Game but you can still procure a copy, as I quote from the e-mail he sent: Thank you for your email. We did offer It's the Old Army Game for awhile and then discontinued the title. The description page is still posted at http://sunrisesilents.com/AGWF_des.html If you would like a copy of Army Game the price is $21.95 + $2.50 shipping = $24.45 USD within the USA. The item number is AGWF-N for the NTSC North American format. Thanks again for your interest. I didn't mention Gravy's name in this, by the way. I learned the hard way that when you drag him into it, you're liable to get a visit from a couple of goombahs anxious to work on your kneecaps with a tire iron. (Plus, that rug really tied the room together.) |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 24 2007, 08:30 PM Post #11 |
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"goombahs"??? |
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| SuperRog | Aug 10 2013, 12:03 PM Post #12 |
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I received one title today that's on your list...Bare Knees. I have a couple more on order...The Forgotten Films of Fatty Arbuckle and The Blot...maybe a couple others. I have an Arbuckle & Keaton set coming but the title I have coming is, I think, The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection. Are there any other good flapper comedies out there? |
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| CliffClaven | Aug 10 2013, 10:34 PM Post #13 |
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There's a second volume of "American Slapstick", which includes Syd Chaplin in "Charley's Aunt" and other good stuff. Also suggest Flicker Alley's box of early Douglas Fairbanks features, showing how much loopy physical energy he could pack into simple little situation comedies. Although they do feel featherweight next to the playful spectacle of "The Black Pirate." As for flapper comedies, "The Patsy" (Warner Archive) might qualify. Mainly a gentle romcom with detours for Marion Davies to do comedy. Highlight has her trying to vamp a man nursing a hangover. Inspired by the photos he has around, she does quick, deadly impressions of several silent sirens. "Ella Cinders" (Grapevine) has Colleen Moore pulling similar duty as a small-town poor relation. With the support of a handsome ice man (actually a college football star and heir to wealth), she manages to win a beauty pageant and a ticket to Hollywood, where she's left to break into movies on her own. Harold Lloyd and Charley Chase are the ones who most inhabit what we think of as the roaring 20s "flapper" world: Slick young men and sleek young ladies in upscale settings, dancing to jazz in art deco rooms. Although as a rule their ladies weren't so much flappers as very traditional heroines in fashionable outfits. Laurel and Hardy would brush up against jazz age night life, but were usually too broke or too married to stay long. Chaplin, Keaton and Langdon generally eschew the jazz age for odd worlds of their own devising, usually more rural or old-fashioned. What they lose in specific period flavor they gain in timelessness. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Aug 11 2013, 08:21 AM Post #14 |
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IT with the extremely cute Clara Bow is my favorite flapper comedy.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Aug 11 2013, 02:01 PM.
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