"You Never Dreamed a Film Could Be So Funny" 29 March 1960 Drama, Comedy, Factual 81 mins
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
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Roscoe Arbuckle as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wallace Beery as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlie Chaplin as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charley Chase as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buster Keaton as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edgar Kennedy as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Langdon as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stan Laurel as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oliver Hardy as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mabel Normand as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gloria Swanson as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ben Turpin as (archive footage) (uncredited)
United States 29 March 1960
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Second in the series of theatrical pastiches assembled by producer and film buff Robert Youngson that popularized forgotten giants of silent cinema. Moviegoers ...
Transferred from 16mm.
Rescued from an old VHS of "Tom Corbett: Space Cadet".
A 1959 Film Shows a compilation of sequences from old silent comedies from the early Sennett films of 1914 to the Roach comedies of 1928 featuring Charlie ...
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