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Max Davidson Comedies
Topic Started: Mar 16 2011, 07:46 AM (627 Views)
Laughing Gravy
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The 2-DVD set has arrived from Germany, and it's absolutely incredible. Includes all of Max's existing Hal Roach short subjects, his first sound film, documentation of the lost films with scripts and more than 300 stills. Of his films, I've only seen "Cuckoos" (which has Charley Chase & Laurel & Hardy in it), his later appearance in an Our Gang film, and the three films he was in with Anita Garvin & Marion Byron.

This package includes:

Why Girls Say No (1927)
Jewish Prudence (1927)
Don't Tell Everything (1927)
Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927)
Flaming Feathers (1927)
Hurdy Gurdy (1929)
Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
Love 'Em and Feed 'Em (1927)
Pass the Gravy (1928)
Dumb Daddies (1928)
Came the Dawn (1928)
The Boy Friend (1928)
The Itching Hour (1931)

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One of the highlights of going to Cinefests past was they showed some of the Max Davidsons (not sure if they still do).

Davidson was a great silent comedian in his own right and well worth checking out.
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One of the Kino Charley Chase sets has "Long Fliv the King," where Max -- assigned the name "Warfield" in a title, but in his usual character -- is randomly recruited by Charley as a sidekick. Cute, and with a wilder plot than most.
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Forgot about that one, Mr. C.... One of my favorites! This set is a joy so far, going through the bonus material and starting into the short subjects.

Pass the Gravy is especially a scream, the 1931 talkie The Itching Hour (with Louise Fazenda) is not.
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I was going to recommend Pass The Gravy as being especially fantastic.
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Agreed -- a classic. We're showing it at the Shasta Silent Film Festival next October.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious...
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