Days of Thrills and Laughter
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks, and into...
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"Robert Youngson's Days of Thrills and Laughter from 1961 includes some great clips from silent comedy and adventure movies.Watch the adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the famous magician Harry Houdini with the horror star Boris Karloff.For comedy lovers there are clips with Charles Chaplin and Harry Langdon.You can see Laurel without Hardy and Hardy without Laurel from the time they weren't the comedy couple everybody loved.There are lots of other great comedians of silent time in the movie.All the clips are very enjoyable to watch.They were very well picked for this movie.Every si..."
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This film makes extensive use of Chopin's "Tristesse" and Franz Von Suppe's "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna".
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s. It starts with a 1905 look at French comedy, goes through the 1910s with Sennett, Chaplin, and Fairbanks, and into...