When Comedy Was King

Name: When Comedy Was King
Director: Robert Youngson
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Released: 1960-03-29
Duration: 4860000 s
Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle, Wallace Beery, Charlie Chaplin

Directed by Robert Youngson

1960 81m

Drama, Comedy, Documentary

7.485%

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Robert Youngson's affectionate, nostalgic retrospective of the Golden Age of Silent Comedy with special attention to the three acknowledged comic geniuses of the period: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keatonm and Harry Landon. The two major comedy studios of the era, Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, especially Laurel an Hardy, are given credit as the great innovators of slapstick visual comedy.

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Cast of When Comedy Was King

Roscoe Arbuckleedited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Wallace Beeryedited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplinedited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)
Charley Chaseedited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)
Buster Keatonedited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
Edgar Kennedyedited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
Harry Langdonedited from 'The First 100 Years'
Stan Laureledited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Oliver Hardyedited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Mabel Normandedited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
Gloria Swansonedited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
Ben Turpinedited from 'Yukon Jake' (archive footage)