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René Clair (French commentary)
Robert Youngson (writer)
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4 September 1959 (France) more
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A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films. | add synopsis
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Stan Laurel ... Stan (archive footage) (as Laurel)

Oliver Hardy ... (archive footage) (as Hardy)
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Billy Bevan ... (archive footage)
Charley Chase ... (archive footage) (as Charlie Chase)
Andy Clyde ... (archive footage)
Harry Gribbon ... (archive footage)

Jean Harlow ... (archive footage)
Harry Langdon ... (archive footage)

Carole Lombard ... (archive footage)

Will Rogers ... (archive footage)
Ben Turpin ... (archive footage)
Dwight Weist ... Narrator
Ward Wilson ... Narrator
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79 min
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Spoofs The Merry Widow (1925) more

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Say it with flour, 11 November 2005
9/10
Author: ianlouisiana from United Kingdom

From the age of the Pie Fight comes this marvellous compilation by Robert Youngson.Watching it you can judge how much sheer joie - de vivre has been lost with the so - called "sophistication "of movie comedy in the ensuing decades.And where are the geniuses to rival Mr Chaplin and Mr Keaton?Who,today,is as universally loved as Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy whose masterwork "Big Business" is featured here? Feel free to laugh uproariously....."For Ghosts may be listening." "The Golden Age of Comedy" used to be a staple of Christmas Day TV. Sitting there watching it with a mince pie and a glass of port must be the nearest thing to paradise this side of the Elysian Fields.

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