American Slapstick, Vol. 2
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Actor: 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Harold Lloyd, Louise Fazenda, Oliver HardyBrand: Facets Multimedia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 440 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Facets / All Day Entertainment
Movie Reviews of American Slapstick, Vol. 2
Movie Review: OBSCURE ITEMS IN A NICELY STRUCTURED SET
Summary: 5 Stars
As said before by other reviewers, this set doesn't present the best of silent comedy, but obscurities of interest mainly for collectors and already silent film fans. As such, it deserves the five stars.
Said that, the set presents films which, with some isolated exceptions, are truly hard to find and which have never been before on DVD. One of the exceptions is Harold Lloyd's "Don't Shove", already on "Smiles & Spectacles - The Harold Lloyd Treasury" DVD. Prints are mostly fine, considering the rarity of these items, and in some cases fragmentary. An odd case, however, is Paul Parrott's brilliant short "POST NO BILLS", which appears here in a badly shaped and slightly truncated print (the beginning and the end are missing, along with some scenes in the middle). This is worth noting becausa a complete and sharp print of this short is already on DVD on Lobster's outstanding collection "Retour de Flamme" (Saved from the flames), VOL.6. This sole fact makes me doubt if some of the not so good prints here do exist in pristine form in some archive, but probably not even the producers of this DVD would be able to answer to that. In any case, we must be thankful for the effort of giving us so many rare items, many of which are also, besides its interest for collector, very funny films indeed.
The Sidney Chaplin shorts are very interesting to watch, as well as his feature "Charley's Aunt", which appears here in a complete and sharp print.
Fragmentary are the rare Harold Lloyd's Luke comedy "Luke Joins the Navy" (1916), the obscure Snub Pollard item "Whirl o' the West", on which Pollard appears with clean face! and the fake Chaplin "Oh! Shoot" (1923).
The rest of the set had already been commented. All in all, a great set with obscure items mostly not to be found elsewhere else (some of them appeared on Looser Than Loose DVDs, but these you have to buy on their own site from collector Dave Stevenson, who provided with many of the prints for this set).
Summary of American Slapstick, Vol. 2
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