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BIG RED RIDING
HOOD (1925)
stars Charley Chase (as his early screen persona, Jimmy Jump) who has been
commissioned to translate the book "Little Red Riding Hood" in to Swedish.
However Charley is financially challenged and must grab ganders at the book from
an open-air bookstand (tended by a persnickety old man and his lovely daughter -
the cute as a button, Martha Sleeper.) The film contains a daydream sequence
(with Helen Gilmore as the title character!) and a climax involving a bit of
dark humor (a motorist who has purchased the book is murdered!) and one of the
weirdest sights on film - Charley riding on a bicycle along side a runaway car -
all the while totally immersed in reading the book that's sitting on the
backseat! Directed by Leo McCarey. Produced by Hal Roach and released through
Pathe.
16mm
/color tinted /
silent / one-reel.....current lab costs at $110.
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THE BLACKSMITH starring Buster Keaton Another gem from Keaton's golden age of silent era short comedies. In this one, he is a bumbling blacksmith's assistant who encounters one problem after another and virtually destroys everything he works on! Not exactly a solo film, he carries off most of his comedy bits by playing against objects. 16mm / b & w silent double perf stock / 800-foot reel /complete 2-reeler from Blackhawk............... Ex-LN shape.............$115. THE BLACKSMITH starring Buster Keaton Another gem from Keaton's golden age of silent era short comedies. In this one, he is a bumbling blacksmith's assistant who encounters one problem after another and virtually destroys everything he works on! Not exactly a solo film, he carries off most of his comedy bits by playing against objects. 16mm Sound / b & w / music and synchronized sound effects by Rusty Cassellton / 800-foot reel /....... Ex-LN shape.....$150. |
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CALLING THE COPS -
Charlie Chaplin in a Screen
Attractions Home Movies headliner edition
16mm / b & w / silent / 100' / Vg-Ex...........................$8.
CAUGHT IN A CABARET starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand
From Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios comes this two-reel comedy short featuring
Charlie Chaplin with Mabel Normand as the society girl, Harry McCoy as her boy
friend, Alice Davenport as her mother, Chester Conklin as a waiter, Mack Swain
as a tough and Minta Durfee as a dancer. Charlie is a lowly waiter who, through
a series of events, meets Mabel and passes himself off as a society swell. His
double life is exposed when the society group go slumming in the cabaret that
Charlie works in and he is exposed as the phony he really is. A brawl ensues and
Mabel gets a pie in her face as Charlie gets his come-uppance. "Caught in a
Cabaret" was released
by Mutual on April 27th, 1914.
16mm /
b & w silent / 800-foot reel / double perf. silent / re-titled
by Sidney Chaplin.....................$95.
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starring Buster Keaton Probably his best remembered early short comedy often used in highlight forms by Robert Youngson and Paul Killiam in their retrospect documentaries such as "When Comedy Was King". This is the COMPLETE short with the often missing "goat gland" gag. 16mm / b & w / silent double perf /dupe (there really are no bonafied "originals" on these early Keatons / ......$125. |
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THE COUNT starring Charles Chaplin
The Count is Chaplin's fifth film in the series Produced by Mutual during the
1916-1917 period. It was released on Sept. 4, 1916. Charlie plays the tailor's
assistant, Edna Purviance plays Miss Moneybags, Eric Campbell plays the tailor,
James T. Kelly is the butler, Leo White is The Count. Albert Austin plays a
guest, Charlotte Mineau is the mother and Frank J. Coleman plays a policeman.
16mm / b & w / silent
double perf stock / complete 2-reel
comedy release by Blackhawk Films / approx. 800-feet / L.N. shape.......$115.
CRUEL, CRUEL LOVE (1914) starring Charlie Chaplin
Sennett/Keystone. This was long a lost film until this rather nice material was
found. Charlie Chaplin stars as a well to do suitor (playing a variation of his
"sharper"
character from his debut film, MAKING A LIVING) courting the equally
affluent Minta Durfee. The couple breaks up due to a misunderstanding. Dejected,
Charlie goes home and decides to commit suicide, but his jovial butler (Edgar
Kennedy) has replaced his poisoned drink with a harmless glass of water.
Nonetheless, Charlie THINKS he's ingested poison and thus follows some of the
hammiest melodramatics Chaplin ever performed on film (replete with a rather
shocking vision of Charlie being tormented by pitchfork-throttling devils in
Hell !!!!) A must have for Chaplin buffs.
16mm / sil.
/ b & w /silent/"one reel" approx. 400'
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(currently at) $115.
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DO DETECTIVES THINK? (1927) An escaped killer vows
vengeance on the judge who sentenced him. Stan and Ollie are hired as
private detectives to "protect" the judge and his wife from the killer, who
happens to be in the house masquerading as the butler! Soon the boys are on
the killer's list as well! 16mm / b&w / sil. /double perf .complete Blackhawk original release/LN.(JD)...$125. GRAVEYARD NIGHTS - Kodascope Toy film digest of "Do Detectives Think" This tinted Kodascope digest runs about 100-feet in length and is basically the complete graveyard scene with the mixed up hats and the goat that scares the boys who race off into the night as the film concludes. 16mm / silent / tinted / approximately 100-feet.....Ex - L.N. shape........$10. |
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DUMMY FRIEND (1929)
Novelty Film Co. toy film headliner
of Ben Turpin comedy excerpt
16mm /
b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5.
GOLF (1922))
starring Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Lucille Carlisle, Vernon Dent, Bill Hauber,
Joe Rock, Al Thompson, Fred Lancaster, Pete Gordon, Vincent McDermott
This lively comedy opens in the boarding house where Larry creates havoc with
his practice swing in his apartment. The action moves outside with the rivalry
for Lucille between Oliver Hardy and Larry. Then, out on the golf course, Larry
encounters a troublesome golf ball-snatching gopher 5 years before Bill Murray
did battle with one in "Caddy Shack"! Vengeful Oliver tries to replace golf
balls with loaded explosive ones that create some suspense every time Larry is
about to swing at it!
Naturally there is a wild car and train chase to conclude this gag-filed comedy.
16mm /
b & w silent double perf. / 800-foot reel /
Blackhawk release...............L.N.
shape..................$150.
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EASY STREET
(Kodascope Toy Film digest) starring Charlie Chaplin and Eric Campbell This is a tinted Kodascope toy film digest from the original 2-reeler. The sequence featured here starts with Charlie being assigned as a new cop to patrol the worst section of town. He overcomes the street bully, Eric Campbell with gas from the street lamp. 16mm / b & w / silent / tinted Kodascope print (no title but otherwise the 100-foot clip complete..............$8. |
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THE FIREMAN (1917)
starring Charles Chaplin
with Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Leo White
16mm /
b & w silent double perf stock / approx. 400-foot reel version / .................$15.
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GOING TO CONGRESS
starring Will Rogers This is a tinted Kodascope toy film digest from the original 2-reeler produced by Hal Roach in the early 1920's. 16mm / b & w / silent / tinted Kodascope double sprocket print / 50-foot "headliner"..............$8. |
THE GANG'S ALL
HERE- (1920's)
Silent era comedy excerpt of Hal Roach's Our Gang-Little Rascals. The gang all
gather for a party in a rich mansion.
16mm /
b & w silent / 50-foot reel /...............used but decent
shape..................$5.
HIGH AND DIZZY Special new custom edition (1920)
Roach/Pathe comedy.
Harold Lloyd stars in one of his most hilarious and "hair-raising" two-reelers.
Harold has a failing medical practice and is desperate for patients. Upon a
"walk-in" by
lovely Mildred Davis who seeks treatment for sleepwalking, Harold is immediately
smitten and ingeniously creates the illusion that his business is thriving.
Later he
helps colleague Roy Brooks "save" a batch of bootleg brew and the sloshed pair
avert one mishap after another, all the while creating small disasters for those
unfortunate enough to cross their path. The film concludes with a remarkable
"thrill" sequence with Harold in plenty of danger on the ledge of a hotel
building, thanks to sleepwalking Mildred! Directed by Hal Roach. All original
titles and intertitles. This new "deluxe" edition comes replete with a dynamite
custom synchronized track featuring music by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
16mm /sof
/ B&W/silent with music & effects /"two reels" approx 800-feet)
.................Sp order...(currently at) $225.
THE IMMIGRANT
starring Charles Chaplin
This
version is from Lone Star Corporation-Guaranteed Pictures. Van Bueren
Production. The music and sound effects are by Gene Rodemich and his Orchestra.
Pre-print used on this edition was very nice and sharp as well. The Immigrant
was Chaplin's eleventh film in his series of twelve for Mutual. It is recorded
that 90,000-feet of film were used to edit the film down to it's 2-reel length
It was released by Mutual on June 17, 1917
16mm Sound (music &
effects)
/ B&W / approx 800-feet / Ex-L.N. shape......................$75.
MacDOUGAL
ALLEY GANG
(Rascals look-alike clip))
This is a toy-film excerpt from what was an "our Gang-look-alike" comedy group.
With no titles, this appears to be from the "MacDougal Alley Gang" which, along
with Mickey McGuire, attempted to imitate the success of Hal Roach's Our
Gang-Little Rascals cp,edies of the 1920's era. In this extract, the gang are
running their own make-shift railroad complete with an engine while a rival gang
attempt to blockade it.
16mm
/ b & w / silent / double perf stock approx
100-feet in length....................... Vg shape......$5.
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- (a.k.a. "A MUDDY ROMANCE") with Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Mack Swain and the Keystone Cops One of Castle Films series of "Old Time Comedies" features this early Keystone era slapstick comedy where Sennett employs the timely draining of local Echo Lake to film a comedy which makes it appear that villain Ford Sterling has "drained the lake" in vengeance, thus providing a spectacular effect at no cost. These early Sennett-Keystones were usually plotless with a simple situation that provided for an excuse for plenty of slapstick and a chase at the end. The personalities of these comics and clowns determined the success of these films more than the material. Later on in the 1920's the reverse would happen at Sennett where top gag men and directors like Del Lord, Frank Capra and Eddie Cline would come up with first rate sight gags and stories and the comedians that were employed were generally interchangeable. 16mm Sound-music & effects / b & w / 400-foot edition / Ex shape . .....$25. |
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THE NICKEL-HOPPER starring Mabel Normand, Boris Karloff, Oliver Hardy
(1926)
Roach/Pathecomedy. The lovely Mabel Normand stars in one of her very last films
- where she plays the hard working "Paddy" - a babysitter by day and a taxi
dancer by night. Her drab life is forever complicated by her lazy and
overbearing father who scares away her prospective suitors. This light comic "featurette"
(which nonetheless includes plenty of slapstick and sight gags) also features
Oliver Hardy as an overly enthusiastic drummer, Boris Karloff as a creepy
"masher"
and the ever-popular James Finlayson. Stan Laurel co-wrote the story and gags.
Directed by F. Richard Jones. Provided on lowfade color stock with beautiful
tints -
amber for day scenes, blue for night scenes and rose for the dancehall
sequences. The overall picture quality is excellent. It has all it's original
titles and intertitles.
16mm / sil
/ ( Color Tinted / Silent / "three
reels" ...........................Sp order....
(currently at) $280.
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A NIGHT AT THE SHOW (1915) Essanay Comedy starring
Charlie Chaplin, Bud Jamison, James T. Kelly, Paddy McGuire, Edna Purviance,
John T. Rand, Carrie Clark Ward, Leo White and May White. This is the "Charlie Chaplin Theater" version of the Essanay comedy. No narration, just music and sound effects. 16mm / Sound-music scored / b & w / splicy at start then average used condition print, ends abruptly but has closing credits....(W. S.)...$35. A NIGHT AT THE SHOW (1915) Essanay Comedy starring Charlie Chaplin, Bud Jamison, James T. Kelly, Paddy McGuire, Edna Purviance, John T. Rand, Carrie Clark Ward, Leo White and May White. This version is released by "King of Comedy" with synchronized music and sound effects, but no narration. Music by Stuart Hersh, sound effects by Jeff Dell and John Mullen. Very nice pre-print, better than some Blackhawk prints I've seen. 16mm / Sound-music scored / b & w / approx 800-feet / Ex - L.N. shape............................................$75. A NIGHT AT THE SHOW (1915) Essanay Comedy starring Charlie Chaplin, Bud Jamison, James T. Kelly, Paddy McGuire, Edna Purviance, John T. Rand, Carrie Clark Ward, Leo White and May White. This is a straight silent version on double perf stock from unknown source but a good, well balanced print, runs clean. 16mm / b & w /silent / approx 800-feet / Ex - L.N. shape............................................$35. |
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THE NOON WHISTLE starring Stan Laurel with James Finlayson Stan Laurel's solo career began in 1917-18 era with some independent comedies produced by Adolph Ramish and G. M. Anderson among others. He soon caught on and was in demand by Universal, Metro and other more prominent producers. After a brief tenure at Roach's Studios in 1918, he was hired back in the employ of the Hal Roach Studios at the peak of the silent era comedy making. He alternated one and two reel comedies to help Roach fill in for other failing comedians who did not get the response in laughs that Stan could. Before long, Stan would be signed away from Roach to the Joe Rock Studios for a legendary series of two-reel classics before a dispute returned Stan to Roach for good. He would write, direct and then soon team up with Oliver Hardy. The work place has often been a good setting for fast-paced short comedies. Brilliantly inventive, these anticipate the zaniness of Tex Avery's animated classics of later years. In "THE NOON WHISTLE", Stan badgers his foreman with a Bugs Bunny-like tenacity and irreverence. Poor Jimmy Finlayson never has a chance! This is a Comedy Capers version re-titled "Wooden Head" 16mm Sound / b & w / music &synchronized sound effects/ 600-foot reel / Ex-LN shape.....$200. |
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ONE WEEK
starring Buster Keaton
Buster is awarded a honeymoon house as a do-it-yourself special that is supposed
to be built in one week. A jealous rival switches the numbers on the crates
causing Buster to build one of the most bizarre looking homes you ever saw! He
invites the in-laws for a visit and s hurricane strikes with wild results!
16mm / b & w /
silent doule perf / nice Blackhawk print (there really are no bonafied "originals" on these early Keatons / print in
mint shape......$125.
PAYDAY
starring Charlie Chaplin
with Mack Swain, Syd Chaplin
This comedy is from his First National period. Charlie plays a construction
worker who is at odds with his boss, Mack Swain but manages to keep his job..
After some slapstick gags at the workplace, Charlie gets his salary and tries to
hide it from his burly, rolling-pin-toting wife. His attempts to catch a crowded
trolly car keep him in town late where he gets drunk and celebrates with his
comrades by singing along. When Charlie finally gets home in the wee hours of
the morning, he attempts to sneak in and get undressed but his wife awakens so
he pretends he just got up and is just on his way to work. He winds up sleeping
in the bathtub, full of water, fully clothed!
16mm Sound /
b & w / 800-foot reel / music and sound effects / nice, sharp
dupe print with good contrast and detail....................$125.
PICK AND SHOVEL (1923)
staring Stan Laurel
with James Finlayson and Katherine Grant
Stan works (if you can call it that!) in a coal mine but spend most of his time
flirting with the boss' daughter or avoiding his wrath. Much of the slapstick
takes place around the mine shaft elevator and down below where Stan engages in
some pantomime bits and sight gags. Virtually plotless, this work place comedy
moves quickly along to a wild conclusion when the mine is flooded and Stan and
the girl make their escape in a wagon pulled by a mule.
Long out of print, this is an old Murray Glass print from the 70's and is
typical of his quality. Not the best, but all that is out there.
16mm
/ B & W / approx. 400' / few minor projection lines otherwise Ex-LN
shape........................Sold pending payment
THE PLAY HOUSE (1921) Comique / First National
Here we have one of the holy grails of 16mm film collecting - previously only
ever available in practically unwatchable dupes with missing footage -- offered
here for the very first time in a SUPERB new complete edition!!!! Buster Keaton
stars in one of his first bonafide masterpieces as a stagehand who dreams of
himself in multiple exposure (executed masterfully and magically through
photography by Elgin Lessley.) Upon awaking from his dream, Buster encounters as
well as creates more comic surrealism within a vaudeville setting. Buster is
supported by Virginia Fox, one of two stage twins he falls in love with and
burly Joe Roberts, his stage boss who he is constantly at odds with,. Written
and directed by Keaton and Eddie Cline. This new edition boasts excellent
picture quality AND ALL ORIGINAL INTERTITLES -INCLUDING MAIN OPENING TITLES AND
END TITLE!!!! (not even the Kino Video edition has original titles !) The
closing leader even retains the "End Part One/Part Two" title cards (which
originally came between reels one and two). Finally, this edition contains a
truly dynamite custom synchronized track using authentic period music by the
stellar Paragon Ragtime Orchestra! This is truly THE edition to have on this
title and will become a treasured part of your film collection.
16mm /(B&W/silent with music & effects/"two reels")
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OUR GANG TOY FILMS complete Our Gang-Rascals films are listed alphabetically COUNTRY FAIR The gang stage a horse/animal race. 16mm / b & w silent / 100-foot reel / orig. box....$8. COWBOYS & INDIANS Exclusive Movies home film release. While traveling on a passenger train the Rascals stage a Cowboys and Indians fight throughout the cars. 16mm / b & w silent / 100-foot reel / orig. box....$8. FRESH COCANUT Exclusive Movies home film release 16mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$8. HOT DOGS-LEMONADE featuring Mickey, Joe, Mary, Farina, Sunshine Sammy and the rest of the gang. 16mm / b & w silent / 100-foot reel / orig. box....$8. FROGS AND HORNETS featuring Mickey, Joe, Mary, Farina, Sunshine Sammy and the rest of the gang. Commencement exercises at the local school house are brought to a shambles in a mess of flour, frogs and hornets. 16mm / b & w silent / 100-foot reel / orig. box....$8. GOODY GOODIES Exclusive Films digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 100-foot reel / orig. box....$8. |
 LAUGHING GAS Atlas Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. GREASED PIG Atlas Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. SCORPION CLUB Atlas Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. CHALLENGE Atlas Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. RODEO Atlas Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. MORE MISCHIEF Apollo Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. OLD MUD HOLE Atlas Films "headliner" digest Our Gang-Little Rascals comedy Regular 8mm / b & w silent / 50-foot reel / orig. box....$5. |
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RECKLESS ROSIE (c1925) Silent era Al Christie comedy starring Francis Lee, Billy Engle. Billy is a fashion designer of women's underwear who is putting on a fashion show. Francis is caught in public wearing one of the negligees by a cop who pursues her all over town, throughout the show and out the back door again. 16mm / b & w /silent double-perf/ 400-foot reel /............Ex-LN shape.................$75. |
SEEING STARS (c1922) featuring Buster Keaton with Charlie Chaplin
& all star cast
First National. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin appear TOGETHER on screen some
thirty years before their teaming in LIMELIGHT in the First National
promotional film, SEEING STARS ("the only motion picture of it's kind ever
made"). Their appearance together is at a dinner held at The Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles to form the Independent Screen Actors Guild. Chaplin is seated
alongside Jackie Coogan - Thomas Ince and Marshall Neilan are also with them.
Keaton appears to be"the waiter" for the evening and, as a running gag, he keeps
taking dinnerware away from Jackie! The film also promotes the upcoming releases
of THE BALLOONATIC, DAYDREAMS and THE PILGRIM - utilizing unused alternate takes
from those films! Others who appear throughout this "First National Attraction"
include Norma and Constance Talmadge, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Turpin, Charles
Ray and Louis B. Mayer. While the film is over 10 minutes long (over 400-feeet)
it is obviously not complete - it's fragmentary state due to nitrate
decomposition. However this material represents all that survives of this rare
and unique piece of silent cinema history.
16mm / silent
/ b & w / approx 400-feet / ....................................Sp order...
(currently at) $149.
THE SOILERS
(1923) starring Stan Laurel
Not available on film for many years now, this is one of Stan Laurel's best
remembered movie spoofs from his solo career prior to teaming with Oliver Hardy.
The classic western by Rex Beach, "The Spoilers" is lampooned to the hilt by
Stan as he plays the corny hero in the mock-William S. Hart-style of overly
dramatic fashion. His battle with villain James Finlayson is punctuated and
interrupted regularly by a cowboy who's not quite regular! An obvious refugee of
Humpback Mountain, he steals the gun Stan and Fin are fighting over and skips
off merrily to shoot his load. The overblown fist fight takes on cartoon-like
gags such as Stan twisting Fin's arm around like rubber! Great fun as a
show-starter! Print is from Glenn Photo Supply in the late 1970's.
16mm
/ b & w / silent / double perf stock./ approx 400-feet/
......................(J.D.).........................$95.
SWISS MOVEMENTS
This is a mountain climbing contest gone to new
heights of absurdity with Jimmie Adams,
Bill Irving, Doris Dawson and
Billy Engle. Like most comedy plots of this era, a simple contest for the
winning of the girl's hand in marriage provides the situation and motives for a
pair of sabotaging rivals to try and out-do each other and reach the
mountaintop.
16mm /
b & w /silent double-perf/ 400-foot reel / Ex shape /
missing opening title, otherwise complete to end................$45.
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TRIUMPH OF LESTER SNAPWELL starring Buster Keaton Though not made in the silent era but in the early 60's, this is a fully complete short subject that Buster Keaton made for the then new Kodak Instamatic Camera. A series of silent comedy skits from 1880 to 1963 traces the development of the home camera and it's various problems which were solved though the years. Plenty of old style sight gags and slapstick occur throughout this wonderful infomercial. Except for the narration, music and sound effects, there is no dialogue from Buster or any of the other players. Photo is for illustration purposes only and not a scene from the film. 16mm Sound / b & w / approximately 25 minutes on a 1,200-ffot reel /..............$105 |
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T'WAS HENRY'S FAULT (An
Antique Automobile Comedy)
starring Harry Depp and Eleanor Field
The "Henry" to which this title refers to is Henry Ford. He invented the auto so
all the problems with flivvers became his fault. This domestic comedy about a
young couple who buy their first car has many gags in it! Probably made around
1916.
16mm / B & W / silent- double perf stock / approx. 400' /Ex shape / very
close to original source material......................sold,
pending payment
TWO TARS (1928)
This may rank as the funniest silent era short comedy ever made, hands down!
Sailors Stan and Ollie are on shore leave. They pick up a couple of girls and
rent a car for the day. Caught in a traffic jam, one bump here and one
retaliation there leads to the original "road rage" battle of all-time!
16mm Sound music scored
/ B & W / approx. 800' / Wonderland dupe with music
score...............(W. S.)...............$45
THE VAGABOND starring
Charlie Chaplin
The Vagabond was released to theaters July 10, 1916 and was the third of
Chaplin's twelve-film Mutual series. It is more drama, less outright comedy than
any earlier
Chaplin film. Also appearing in the film is Edna Purviance as the gypsy girl,,
Eric Campbell as the gypsy chief, and Charlotte Mineau as the gypsy mother.
Charlie
plays a saloon violin player who befriends a gypsy girl.
16mm Sound music scored
/ B & W /approx. 800' /complete 2-reeler by Blackhawk w/ Van Bueren music / L.
N. shape..(JD)..$135 Sold pending
payment
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WEEK END DRIVER
starring Larry Semon with Dorothy Dwan and Fatty Alexander This is an excellent digest from Castle Films of a Larry Semon 2-reeler from the mid-1920's. With a minimal storyline as usual, Larry is off on one of his spectacular chases featuring the usual planes, cars and anything that moves! 16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot reeler from Castle / few splices at start the fine / G-Ex shape.........$25 |
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WHY GIRLS SAY NO (1927) starring Max Davidson in a Roach/Pathe
comedy.
Max Davidson's starring pilot film for Hal Roach (written by Stan Laurel and
directed by Leo McCarey) with Spec O' Donnell, Creighton Hale, Oliver Hardy as a
policeman and a cameo by Noah Young. This Davidson short is filled with mildly
politically incorrect humor, as Papa Whisselberg (Max) is dead set on his
daughter
courting only "a Jewish boy" - leaving "Irisher" suitor, Creighton Hale,
ethnically challenged. Great situation comedy which is not without its great
sight gags
(Officer Ollie plunging into a deep mud hole, Max's exploding birthday cake,
Noah's breakaway car). Long unseen until this material came to light. All
original titles
and intertitles.
16mm / sil
/ B&W / "two reels" approx 800-feet............................Sp
order.... (currently at) $220.
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WIFE AND AUTO TROUBLE starring William Collier, Sr. Mae Busch and the Keystone Cops with Blanche Payson and Joseph "Baldy" Belmont Willie is supporting his wife, mother-in-law and sniveling brother-in-law who disrespect him and treat him like a second rate citizen at home. He buys a new car and takes his sexretary out to lunch where the jealous wife ties to catch him. They escape and the chase is on with the Keystone Cops in hot pursuit. 16mm / b & w / silent Blackhawk Films release / approx 400' / L.N. shape..................$55. |
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WONDERFUL WORLD OF HAROLD LLOYD
This is a specially produced introduction to students of Harold
Lloyd with excerpts from several of his best remembered comedies. From
"Movie Crazy", the bicycle gag, From "The Kid Brother", the monkey sequence,
from "For Heaven's Sake", the great street car chase. Next, an extract from
"Speedy" with the cab fight gags. A couple of sequences from "Girl Shy" include
the fantasy dream scenes with the girl "flappers" as Harold imagines himself to
be the Casanova as well as the scene with Jobyna Ralston. This compilation
concludes with the cop chase from "For Heaven's Sake"
16mm Sound / b & w /
music and narration (approx 900-feet) / Vg shape, few splices, titles gone but
still a top quality print........$75.
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WERE starring William Tracy and Joe Sawyer In the early 1940s, producer Hal Roach turned out several entertaining and profitable "streamliners" (each running approximately 45 minutes) about an army recruit with a photographic memory (a sort of "schmucky" Mr. Spock with personality) and his long-suffering sergeant. William Tracy portrayed Private (and later Sergeant) Doubleday, while Joe Sawyer was his "topkick" Sgt. Ames. In 1951, Roach's son, Hal Jr., decided to revive the series, but only two 6-reel films resulted. The first, "AS YOU WERE" finds Doubleday re-enlisting, much to the consternation of the bombastic Sgt. Ames who tries to sabotage Tracy at every opportunity only to get into further trouble with his superior officers. Both men find themselves at odds with their new "fellow" sergeant, lovely W.A.C. played by Joan Vohs. When the two sergeants get caught in the W. A. C. locker-room they must find a way to sneak out. You guessed it! Seeing Joe Sawyer in drag is a sight hard to forget! 16mm Sound / b & w / approx 2,000 feet / used shape with intermittent lines but quite watchable..................$45 |
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BABES IN TOYLAND (March of the Wooden Soldiers) This is essentially the Federal release with the Mother Goose storybook opening added at the beginning to make a complete feature. The Toyland theme sung by Virginia Karns as well as the "Go to sleep" musical number sung by Felix Knight in the cave scenes near the climax that are both often missing from standard versions of this Christmas time classic. Photo at right is from a German lobby-card photo and not a frame capture from the film. 16mm Sound / b & w / feature from Federal / Ex shape...................$185. |
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BACK TO THE WOODS
(1936) starring The Three Stooges with Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison One of the early classic Stooge comedies with the three of them as pilgrims sent to the Colonies to battle Indians. Upon their arrival they meet three young daughters of a local governor with whom they flirt with and do a jitterbug-minuet dance using a small music box. The party is interrupted by the Governor (Vernon Dent) who commands them to attend a peace meeting with the Indians who do to the pilgrims what the government would ultimately do to the Indians. Hunting against the rules, the Stooges get caught up in a fight for their life against some of the best and funniest stunt Indians you'll see! The Stooges ultimately konk, swat and burn the Indians as they make their escape in a row boat across the lake! 16mm/Sound / b & w / complete 2-reel comedy -release original print/ no VS .....$70. |
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THE BIG NOISE
(1944) Digest version
Laurel & Hardy star in this 2-reel digest from 20th Century Fox
16mm/Sound / b & w /approx 800' / G shape, minor wear,
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THE BIG THUMB starring W. C. Fields In this digest version from "It's A Gift", Fields is Harold Bissonette (pronounced "Biss-o-nay" if your his pompous wife) who runs a general grocery store but desires settling down to a California orange ranch. His prospects of escape from problematic customers and baby LeRoy seem doomed! The "speadingest" comedy you ever saw! 16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot-reel edition from Castle Films / .Vg shape, minor wear.........$20. |
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BRIDGE WIVES (1932) starring Al St. John
Al us cast as an overwrought husband on the verge of a nervous breakdown
over the fact that his wife is neglecting him due to her bridge playing
tournaments
(a craze which is broadcast over the radio!) During the course of the film, Al
has what amounts to SEVERAL conniption fits (incorporating his unique acrobatic
skills) which have to be seen to be believed!!!! Directed by none other than
Al’s uncle, the one and only Roscoe Arbuckle (under the
name William Goodrich). A rare find, guaranteed to bring down the house.
16mm / sof
/ b & w / one reel (approx 400-feet) / ...................Sp. order
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BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME starring Abbott & Costello Bud and Lou are about to be discharged from the service following the end of W.W. 2 when they try to smuggle a little French war orphan girl to the U.S. Their attempts to hide the little girl from the authorities and also find a way to adopt her lead to a job as mechanics for a midget race car driver. When the police attempt to impound the race car, Lou jumps in the racer and takes off with the police in hot pursuit! One of the best chase sequences ever done by Universal in the tradition of the classic Mack Sennett-era comedies is the climax of this digest. Box cover at right is for the S-8 version only. 16mm Sound / b & w / 800-foot reel digest from Universal 8/16..........................................$55. |
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A BUNDLE OF BLISS
(c1940) starring Andy Clyde Andy longs for a baby and when his wife's cryptic telegram causes him to think he's going to be a father, he goes all out with a nursery only to be let down when the truth is know. Through a series of mishaps, he's confused with being a kidnapper by cop Fred Kelsey who has some first rate comic bits in this comedy. Andy decides to adopt after going through a wild finale with a "politically incorrect" ending you won't believe! 16mm/Sound / b & w / complete 2-reel comedy -release from Official Films / Ex shape, minor wear ..................................$75. |
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BUSY BODIES (1933) Stan and Ollie are carpenters at a local lumber yard where they first encounter a co-worker who has no sense of humor or likeability (played by Charlie Hall). After starting a feud with him they start a feud with each other and proceed to make a shambles of the place! Full of great sight-gags and slapstick, Stan and Ollie work, more or less, as a "solo" act with the other characters only appearing near the start and end of the film. 16mm Sound / b&w / Ex dupe or reduction with Film Classic titles .(JD).$95. |
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| CASH AND
CARRY starring The Three Stooges with Sonny Bupp, Harlene Wood, Eddie Laughton, Cy Shindell Directed by Del Lord The Stooges come home after several months of unsuccessful prospecting only to find that a young, crippled boy and his older sister have moved into their City Dump shack. The Stooges attempt to invest the boy's operation money by buying a house that is supposed to contain Captain Kidd's treasure, but when they attempt to dig it up they break into the US Treasury instead! Most of the slapstick revolves around their attempts to bust through walls and floors of the old house with Moe getting the worst of it as usual! After the Screen Gems logo there are no titles or fade in but the film picks up entering their shack and is complete throughout, so bargain priced accordingly. 16mm Sound / b & w / 2-reeler (approx 750') / ......$45. |
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COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932)
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg from his hip down to his foot. Stan
visits him there and upsets the entire floor with his bungling to the point of
getting Ollie thrown out of the hospital by the angry doctor played by Billy
Gilbert. While Stanley is "helping" Ollie get dressed, he sits on a syringe that
is filled with potent that will make him sleepy. Ollie wants Stan to drive but
after they are on the road, the sleeping effect starts to take hold and the boys
are in for a wild ride through the streets as the groggy Stanley can't cope with
the skidding car and the traffic while Ollie fears he will wind up back in the
hospital with even more broken bones before the wild car ride is over!
A prime Laurel and Hardy comedy that derives most of the laughter from
their characters and does not rely just on the action at the conclusion.
16mm Sound
/ b & w / 800-foot edition /
Ex dupe or reduction / Film Classics titles............$90.
| CRIME CONTROL starring Robert Benchley Benchley talks about inanimate items that can drive one to becoming a raving maniac when they don't function properly such as shoe laces, window shades that don't work, uncooperative bedroom slippers, troublesome handkerchiefs, newspapers that don't fold properly, type-writer ribbons that don't load, tie collar pins that choke you and even a pen that fails you when you need it! 16mm Sound / b & w / complete 400-foot-reel edition sharp clear dupe that's a hair dark but still quite watchable / Ex shape .................$20. |
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DEVIL'S BROTHER (a.k.a. "Fra Diavolo") This is the first of a series of comic-operettas by Laurel and Hardy. It co-stars Dennis King as the singing bandit named "Fra Diavolo". The print is a fine grain reduction from a 35mm source with the original M. G. M. titles. 16mm Sound/ b & w / complete feature............................$275. |
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DIRTY WORK (1933) silent version- Library Films digest Stan and Ollie are chimney-sweeps in the house of a crazed scientist who is working on a rejuvenation formula. What he needs is a house-rejuvenation after Stan and Ollie are through! Some of Stan and Ollie's funniest two-man gags occur in this comedy as they basically play the comedy without much interaction with either the scientist or the droll butler who only occasionally shows up in time to get doused with filthy ashes and must leave immediately after his indignation has occurred ("Somewhere an electric chair is waiting" he grumbles) Lucien Littlefield, as the scientist is serviceably eccentric and nutty to give Stan & Ollie a few worrisome looks as they eventually get caught up in his experiment with making living creatures younger. The off-beat ending is another in the list of unusual conclusions that Laurel & Hardy used to set their films apart from the rest of the comedians. 16mm / b & w / silent double perf. 400-foot edition from Library Films w/ orig box/ Ex-L.N. shape............$15. |
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DOUBLE TROUBLE (1936)
This one-reel sound comedy digest from the feature "Our Relations" begins with
Captain Sidney Toler requesting the favor from Alf and Bert to pick up a
valuable pearl ring. When the captain shows up at the rendezvous and learns they
are at a nightclub, living large, he confronts the wrong set of twins and a riot
ensues in the nightclub. The finale at the dock with the boys in cement about to
be dumped into the drink culminates in their rescue by the twin brothers.
16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot one -reel
comedy digest from Hollywood Enterprises....................................
$20.
DO DETECTIVES THINK?
(1927) complete 2-reeler
A judge is threatened by an escaped killer he sentenced so he hires Stan & Ollie to
"protect" him. The killer arrives masquerading as the butler! Stan and Ollie are
as dense as any detectives could be. The killer keeps on the prowl as the boys don't even
recognize him! Soon, all pretense of masquerade is abandoned and the killer is now on a
rampage after anyone who gets in his way!
16mm
/ b & w / silent double perf.
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DOPEY DICKS
(1950) starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Shemp) with Christine McIntyre, Phil Van Zandt This works well with the mad scientist-monster farces that the Stooges made every so often. While the Stooges are working as janitors, cleaning up a detective's office, a woman enters, claiming she is being followed. She later gets kidnapped and the Stooges snap into action. They soon enter the lab of a mad scientist, who wants a human head for his mechanical body. The scientist chooses the Stooges, who immediately try to escape with the kidnapped woman. The usual chase through the house with gags galore ensues! 16mm Sound / b & w / 2-reels (approx 750') Screen Gems original TV print.......................................$55. |
DUCK SOUP
Universal 8 digest
starring the Marx Brothers
16mm / Sound
/ b & w / 800-foot-reel edition from Universal 8...(J. D.)................$75.
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FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD starring Spike Jones, Buddy Hackett and Hugh O'Brien in a nostalgic 1890's horse and buggy era slapstick comedy about a fire house and it's mishaps. This film was originally slated to star Abbott & Costello but Lou Costello fell ill and was unable to work so with some of the slapstick chase scenes already filmed in long shots, they substituted Buddy Hackett and Hugh O'Brien to take the place of Bud and Lou. 16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot-reel edition from Castle Films / Ex shape..................$35. NO FIRES, PLEASE starring Spike Jones, Buddy Hackett and Hugh O'Brien This is another series of slapstick excerpts from FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD from those clever people at Castle Films who, when in doubt for a reissue title choose the "No something, please" bit. In spite of the dippy reissue title, this alternate series of funny excerpts is a nostalgic 1890's horse and buggy era slapstick comedy about a fire house and it's mishaps. This film was originally slated to star Abbott & Costello but Lou Costello fell ill and was unable to work so with some of the slapstick chase scenes already filmed in long shots, they substituted Buddy Hackett and Hugh O'Brien to take the place of Bud and Lou. 16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot-reel edition from Castle Films / Ex shape..................$35. |
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THE FIXER UPPERS (1935) silent version Greeting card salesmen Stan & Ollie help a neglected wife make her husband jealous only to have him challenge Ollie to a duel! Mae Busch is cast in a sympathetic and glamorous role for a change from her usual nasty housewife parts she was generally remembered for. Charles "Ming" Middleton was the tempermental artist who challenges Ollie to a duel. Arthur Houseman is along as the drunk who inadvertently gets them involved in this mess. The final duel is rigged by Mae so Ollie won't get hurt but the ruse is exposed and the chase is on by the furious artist after Ollie with Stan right behind! 16mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reeler Film Classics print-Ex pic, sound slightly crackly / Ex shape...........$45. |
| FOREIGN LEGION
starring Abbott & Costello with Walter Slezak, Patricia Medina, Douglas Dumbrille Nicely done digest from the Abbott & Costello feature. 16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot-reel digest from Castle Films ................$25. 16mm Sound / b & w / 800-foot-reel digest from Universal 8...................$45 |
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FUN ON THE RUN starring Abbott & Costello with Lon Chaney, Jr. Nicely done digest from the Abbott & Costello feature "Here Come The co-Eds". In this sequence, the big basketball game is corrupted by gamblers and professional women's champions as ringers. The women systematically injure Bixby's star players and with no substitute, Lou dresses up as a girl and comes into the game! Some hilarious basketball gags by Lou who shows off some of his real life basketball skills (but witha comic twist) before a scramble for the waged money turns into a hot chase through town. Naturally the money is recovered and Lou goes from the goat who lost the basketball game to hero. 16mm Sound / b & w / 400-foot-reel digest from Castle Films ................$25. |
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SADDLES starring The Three Stooges (Larry Curly & Moe) with Hank Mann, Stanley Blystone Larry Moe and Curly are scouts for the Army. Buffalo Bilious, Wild Bill Hiccup and Just Plain Bill are sent to locate some cattle rustlers headed by big boss Stanley Blystone who love to shoot card players for cheating or winning. Under cover, the Stooges gain entrance into the game only to be discovered and a wild chase ensues in a covered wagon with run-away horses and a small monkey on Curly's head to complicate matters. They fortify themselves in a cabin and use a meat-grinder as a machine gun to shoot bullets at the rustlers until the Cavalry arrives to wrap up the outlaws. Some great gags throughout includes veteran Mack Sennett comedian Hank Mann as a rustler trying to smoke out a rabbit from the brush which is really one of the Stooges in hiding. They keep him confused until a mules bites Curly in the ass and they must run off from the rustlers. 16mm Sound/approx 750' / Screen Gems original, very few splices that don't affect continuity..........$75. |
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HELPMATES(1931)
The morning after a wild party, Ollie asks Stan to
help him clean up the mess before Ollie's "charming" wife returns from an out of
town trip. Hilarious disasters occur with Stan's "helping" proving Murphy's law
is also Laurel & Hardy's Law as well!
16mm
Sound
/ b & w / complete 2-reeler from
Blackhawk Films /gorgeous early 70's print...... (J.D.)....................$120.
| HERE COME
THE CO-EDS starring Abbott & Costello with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Peggy Ryan This is a 30-minute digest version from Castle Films which contains all three of the one-reel digests edited together giving a fast-paced version of the original feature which includes the wrestling scene, the oyster soup scene, the kitchen-cleaning fiasco and the basketball match followed by the chase at the end of the film. Lon Chaney, Jr. is the villain who tries to fix the big game with gamblers by hiring professional women's basketball players as ringers against the college girls of Bixby Girls College where Bud and Lou are caretakers. 16mm / sof / b & w / 30-minute digest from Castle Films using the title "Fun on the Run"...............$30. |
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| HISS AND
MAKE UP starring Andy Clyde Veteran Sennett comedian Andy Clyde starred in his own series during the talking era first at Sennett then at Columbia Pictures for many years. His films were issued to the Toy Film market first by Excell then later by Columbia Home movies. 16mm / b & w / silent 100-foot toy film digest from Excel Films / mint original box..............$10. |
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HOT ICE starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Shemp) with Kenneth McDonald, Christine MacIntyre Columbia would go to any end to save footage on their short subjects. Using opening scenes from "Hot Scots" where the Stooges apply as mail order detectives to Scotland Yard, they establish the premise of the Stooges getting hired and doing the paper clean-up by the hedges and then, for one shot, have the Stooges read an entirely new note to establish the gorilla and diamond thieves sequence. From here on, it is a new comedy with Shemp accidentally swallowing the diamond and the crooks wanting to cut it out of him only to have the gorilla interfere and take over! 16mm / sof / b & w / 800-foot-reel / original print / some wear but generally quite good...............$45. |
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HIGH FLYERS starring Abbott & Costello Bud and Lou join a flying school and practice in what they think is a motorless plane, but it isn't and off they go into some of the wildest staged trick aviation stunts you'll ever see. 16mm Sound / 400-foot reel edition from Castle Films / / Ex-LN. shape.............$25. |
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| KNUTZY
KNIGHTS starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Shemp) with Jock Mahoney, Christine McIntyre, Phil Van Zandt The Stooges are troubadours singing and play-acting for the Princess who is doomed to an arranged marriage so they attempt to help her marry the common blacksmith, Cedric. With some borrowed scenes from "Squareheads of the Round Table", they build a different chase comedy around the old scenes with some skilful editing and reconstruction of scenery and costumes. Cedric is imprisoned while the guards chase the Stooges throughout the castle. While hiding, the Stooges overhear of the plot by the prince (Phil Van Zandt) to kill the King after he marries the Princess. The Stooges prevent the trumpets from sounding by throwing fruit into the horns. Cedric manages to escape and catch the assassins just as they are about to stab the King. He rewards him by allowing the marriage of the Princess to him. The trumpets sound as the fruit flies into the Stooges faces! 16mm / sof / b & w / 800-foot-reel nice average dupe ...............$35. |
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LAUGHING GRAVY (1931) The boys find themselves in a boarding house where their landlord does not allow pets, especially barking dogs. Stan and Ollie do their best to conceal their little dog, "Laughing Gravy" but the intolerant landlord removes the pooch and puts him out in the cold, snowy night. Angry and heartbroken, Stan and Ollie decide to rescue the freezing pooch and smuggle him back into their room which is on the second story. Windows, chimneys are the only way for the boys to succeed but the disasters pile up on them and they find themselves evicted. Or do they? A fine combination of character study, pantomime and old fashioned slapstick mark this excellent comedy showing once again how Stan and Ollie need only the slimmest of situations to weave a 20 minute laugh fest. 16mm Sound / b&w / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films ...........$120. |
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THE LIVE GHOST (1934)
Fishing on their day off from the fish processing
factory, the boys are recruited to shanghai men for Walter Long's
ship,
reputedly haunted by ghosts. When a drunken shipmate falls into a vat of white
wash, he scare the entire crew into believing in ghosts!
16mm Sound
/ b&w / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films / approximately 800 feet
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MEXICAN HAYRIDE starring Abbott & Costello
Bud Abbott is a confidence man who lures Lou Costello into a phony stock scheme
while they are on the run from the authorities in Mexico. Using their own
printing press to create a mining stock, they employ beautiful Senioritas to
sell the stock for them. Lou hides the money from the scheming Bud but Lou's
girlfriend, Dagmar, hides it in her hat because Lou is too easily fooled by Bud.
The authorities catch up with Bud and Lou and they are on the lam again. The
wild conclusion has Lou as a bull-fighter with a wild bull in the arena while
thousands watch! Dagmar throws the hat with the money to Lou but misses and it
lands on the horn of the bull in the ring! Lots of wild sight gags as Lou must
find a way to retrieve the money in the hat.
16mm Sound / b&w / 800-foot digest
edition from Universal ........L.N. shape......................$60.
THE MIDNIGHT PATROL
(1933) complete 2-reeler
Stan and Ollie as two
bumbling police officers.
16mm Sound
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Film Classics titles............$90.
MOAN & GROAN, INC. (1929) all-talking comedy
starring Farina, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson, Wheezer, Pete the
Pup, Norman "Chubby" Chaney and the rest of the gang
also starring Edgar Kennedy and Max Davidson
The rascals are visiting with the friendly cop on the beat, Edgar Kennedy, and
he tells them they could have fun digging for treasure. So, the gang invade an
old abandoned house with sliding secret panels and a crazy man (Max Davidson)
living there who likes to play practical jokes on visitors. The kids get lost in
the maze
of secret passages in the old house before Kennedy the cop arrives and stumbles
his way through to eventually catching the crazy, but harmless madman.
16mm Sound /
b& w / complete 2 -reeler from Blackhawk Films ........Ex-LN.
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY (1936) This is another of the excerpts from Laurel & Hardy's feature "Our Relations" as released by the home movie company Hollywood Enterprises. This digest opens with the arrival of a telegram for Hardy from mother talking about their twin brothers, Alf & Bert. The scene then shifts to the Denker's Beer Garden scene where the two twins, Alf & Bert pick up Alice & Lilly. Then after they leave, Stan and Ollie show up with their wives and also James Finlayson appears and, thinking they are Alf & Bert, get Stan and Ollie into trouble with the wives. The boys decide to extract revenge on Fin in a slapstick finale as Fin is carted off by the burly waiter and bartender! Print is timed a hair darker than usual in a couple of scenes otherwise a typical print. 16mm / Sound / b & w / 1-reeler (appox. 400') Hollywood Enterprises Films...................$20 |
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| MUMMIE'S
DUMMIES (1949)
starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Shemp) Larry Moe and Shemp are used chariot salesmen who make the mistake of selling one of their lemons to a Captain of the Guard of the Emperor (played by Vernon Dent). Arrested for their swindle, they are about to be executed when the Emperor's sore tooth gives the Stooges a chance to redeem themselves by helping pull the tooth! Of course, they put thick glasses on Shemp who can hardly see his hand in front of his face. The myopic Shemp accidentally succeeds and the Stooges are rewarded with a commission in the guard unit where they uncover a plot to cheat the Emperor of the tax money and catch the thieves with Shemp disguised as a mummy! 16mm / Sound/ b & w / 2-reeler (approx 750') original print .........................................................................$75. |
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NO DOUGH
BOYS (1944) starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Curly) with Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre The Stooges took no prisoners as far as the P.C. Nazis of today are concerned. These are the original Nazis they take on along with the Japanese. The plot, such as it is, opens with the Stooges dressed as Japanese soldiers on a photo shoot. Sent out to lunch in uniform by the photographer, they are quickly mistaken for real Japanese soldiers by the cafe owner, who attacks them. Fleeing, they inadvertently , land in a house full of Axis Powers sympathizers, headed by Nazi Vernon Dent and three seductive female spies including Christine McIntyre. The Stooges realize they are in a spy nest and try to bluff their way though by pretending to be acrobats. The real Japanese soldiers arrive and a frenzied brawl ensues! 16mm Sound / b & w / 2-reels (approx 750') Screen Gems original TV print......$75. |
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NO INDIANS, PLEASE! starring Abbott & Costello
In this brilliantly-titled digest from Castle Films, Abbott & Costello break an
old Indian law and the tribe is after them. A great chase sequence comprises the
majority
of this comedy excerpt from "Ride 'em Cowboy".
16mm / Sound
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OH, MY ACHING TOOTH starring Abbott & Costello
Official Films released this excerpt from the feature
length comedy "Noose Hangs High".
16mm / Sound
/ b & w / 400-foot-reel edition from Castle Films ...................$25
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ONE RUN ELMER starring Buster Keaton Buster runs a gas station out in the desert where there isn't much to do except play baseball. Out-witted by his rival gas station owner across the way, Buster gets the best of hin during the baseball game where he pulls out all of the gags he can to get an edge against the other team and an ornary umpire who has it in for Buster from an earlier encounter at the gas station. Look quickly and you'll catch a glipmse of the legendary Jim Thorpe as one of the ball players. He's the husky guy with long Indian hair. One of Keaton's more inventive talkie comedies, he hardly says a word but works a great deal of gags into the script. The print is a reduction from a 35mm source. The quality is quite sharp though there are some pre-print lines from the original material in the second half of the film. 16mm / Sound / b & w / 800-foot-reel reduction from 35mm, has some pre-print lines but a good sharp clear picture ...................$75 |
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RELATIONS
- Laurel and Hardy, in their 1936 full-length feature "Our Relations" are two sailors on leave who entrust their current salary to the stoker for "safe-keeping". They meet two charming and refined young ladies and when they try to get their money back from the stoker, they find it will need some action! Their twin brothers are mistaken for them and a "comedy of errors" ensues to a hilarious climax! 16mm Sound / b & w / full length feature from Blackhawk / early 70's print in L. L. shape..................(J.D.)........$150. |
OYSTERS AND MUSCLES starring Abbott & Costello
In another brilliantly-titled digest from Castle Films, Abbott & Costello are
first seen in a restaurant where Lou encounters some oyster soup with a live
oyster in the bowl snatching the crackers that Lou keeps putting in! Later, Lou
is put into a wrestling match against the "Masked Marvel" (played by Lon Chaney,
Jr.)
16mm / Sound
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PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES - Laurel and Hardy star in their second full-length feature as a pair of soldiers in W.W. 1 who befriend a child of their buddy who is killed in action. Back in America they only know the last name of the grand parents which is Smith! With only all of New York City Smiths to ask, they undertake the ordeal of tracking down the girl's family! Some funny adventures along the way before all is resolved.This Blackhawk print was struck in the early 1970's and is in near mint condition. 16mm Sound / b & w / full length feature from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape..................(J.D)....................$150. |
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PARDON US - Laurel and Hardy star in their first full-length feature as a couple of beer bootleggers who wind up in jail for trying to sell some of their extra beer to a cop! "I though he was a street car conductor!" says Stan as they are carted away into a prison where they have a variety of comic episodes before the big prison break finale! 16mm Sound / b & w / full length feature from Blackhawk Films / L.N. shape..................(J.D)....................$150. |
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PALEFACE
starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Henry Brandon in a digest of the classic
Western comedy. This episode features Bob's "escape" from the Indians and
his "rescue" of Jane.
16mm Sound /
400-foot reel
edition from Castle Films / / Ex-LN. shape.............$25.
| THE PEST
MAN WINS (1951) starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Shemp) with Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Margie Liszt, Nanette Bordeaux Larry Moe and Shemp are pest exterminators in a remake of "Ants in the Pantry". Things are slow for the pest removers as they peek in on a society party and scheme to infest the fancy mansion with all manner of ants, mice, and other pests. Knocking at the door offering their services, the society matron falls for the plant and hires them to work among the guests incognito dressed in tuxes as guests. The grand finale has a pie fight with skillfully edited stock footage from "Half Wits Holiday" and "In the Sweet Pie and Pie". 16mm / Sound/ b & w / 2-reeler (approx 750') nice dupe, sharp fine grain picture..........$55. |
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PINCH ME PLEASE starring Abbott & Costello
Official Films released this excerpt from the feature
length comedy "Noose Hangs High".
16mm / Sound
/ b & w / 400-foot-reel edition from Castle Films ...................$25
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| LADIES IN A
TURKISH BATH
(1932) starring Thelma Todd and Zazu Pitts with Billy Gilbert In this Hal Roach comedy, Thelma and Zazu are suffering from colds. Their boss desperately needs them at work so he tells them to go to a local health club and take a Turkish bath to minimize their symptoms. They create a mess and total chaos! 16mm Sound 1-reeler (approx. 400') Library Films digest titled "Ladies in a Turkish Bath..............$25. |
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RIOT ON ICE (1943) starring Abbott & Costello Snappy. well done digest by Castle Films from Abbott & Costello's feature "Hit The Ice". A great show starter, Bud and Lou are on the lam from the authorities and they do their dithering "pack-unpack" routine. At a train station where they sneak aboard a passenger train as musicians (look for a cameo by Mantan Mooreland). On board the train they try to out-wit the conductors who are pursuing them for their train tickets. Then they try to impersonate federal agents. Neither ruse works and they wind up in Snow Valley where they take jobs as waiters on skates at an ice skating rink. Bud manages well enough but Lou can't get himself together and there are some wild skating and plunges that ensue when Lou is caught on the tail end of a "crack the whip" skating group! There are some crazy stunt-skating and pratfalls by Lou (and his brother Pat in a few spots). A good entertaining digest. 16mm Sound / b & w / one reel digest by Castle Films / orig box........................$20.. |
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ROGUE SONG clip As you know, this is the only circulating clip from Laurel & Hardy's missing feature that has shown up. A few non L&H clips have also appeared but this has Stan and Ollie in the storm sequence where their tent is blown away and they must take refuge in a nearby cave only to discover that they are sharing it with a bear! 16mm Sound / Color / approximately 100-feet / good 2-color Tech reproduction.........$90. |
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RHYTHM
AND WEEP starring The Three Stooges (Larry More & Curly) The film opens with the Stooges being thrown out of a vaudeville theater as the worst act the manager has ever seen. Discouraged, they decide to end it all and jump off of a sky scraper. With this cheerful premise, they arrive on the roof only to discover three pretty girl dancers are about to jump as well. They become enamored of each other and when they hear a piano playing, they investigate. A rich producer is playing and they are engaged by him to appear in his next stage production. They next perform an Army doctor skit with Moe trying to get the bashful Curly to cooperate with the exam. When Curly balks at taking his clothes off, Larry and Moe engage in a virtual wrestling match to overcome Curly's reluctance. The producer turns out to be a looney who is taken back to the funny farm as the Stooges and the girls are left with no job! This print is missing the scene where Jack Norton hires the stooges so it is priced accordingly. 16mm / sound / b & w / original print /approx 600' / L.N.shape, minimal wear, minimal splices ...................$25. |
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RIDE 'EM COWBOY
starring Abbott & Costello
Castle Films digest from the feature of the same name (at least they didn't
re-title it "No Cowboys, Please!") Bud and Lou arrive on a tourist bus that
stops at a dude ranch. Their first action is to visit the swimming pool and
go for a swim. Of course, Lou is coheresed into putting on a diving
exhibition despite some impatient divers who don't wait for him causing Lou
to fall in the pool and then he remembers he can't swim. Moving on to the
stables, Bud and Lou get a dose of milking a cow. The cow's tail keeps
slapping Lou so he ties a hammer to the tail and you can guess the result.
After getting kicked by a horse, Lou give a bucking bronco a wild ride when
his belt gets caught on the saddle and he can't get thrown off! A fast
moving fun digest.
16mm / Sound
/ b & w / 400-foot-reel edition from Castle Films (dupe print)
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THICKER THAN WATER(1935) Ollie and his wife rent a room to Stan who can't seem to keep track of his rent money. Ollie can't keep the finances straight and when they get caught up in the bidding at a local auction, they loose the household savings and the wife is on the rampage! 16mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reeler by Blackhawk Films...Ex-L.N. shape........$70. |
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TRAMP TROUBLE (digest of "Merrily We Live")
starring Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett
with Billie Burke, Clarence Kolbe, Alan Mobray, Bonita Granville
This is an 800-foot, 2-reel composite of two Hollywood Enterprises digests
from the feature length Hal Roach comedy that works quite well. Aherne seeks
to use the phone of the millionaire banker only to be swept up as their
chauffer and then mistaken for a society guest while Constance Bennett goes
from disliking him to falling in love with him. Shades of "My Man Godfrey"
in this lively comedy that stand well on it's own with top performances and
some good gags and pratfalls thrown in for good measure.
16mm
Sound / b & w /
approximately 20minutes on an 800-f0ot reel /..............$45
THE
TREASURER'S REPORT
(1928) marks the great Robert Benchley's cinematic debut. This comic talkie
novelty (released shortly after THE JAZZ SINGER and possibly the first
commercially released all-sound short) features Benchley as a very
ill-at-ease assistant treasurer - forced to give an accounting of an
organization's finances at a dinner. A brilliant party piece created by
Benchley himself is a gem of understated humor - the sort that Bob Newhart
would find success with decades later.
16mm Sound / b&w
/ one-reel...........current lab prices at.............
$110.
THEM THAR HILLS (1934)
Ordered by Ollie's doctor to take a
holiday in the country for his health, Stan and Ollie get involved with some
country moon-shiners and a nasty traveler. One of their reciprocal destruction
feuds develop into an explosive ending! A sequel was made the following year
titled "Tit for Tat".
16mm Sound /
b&w / complete 2-reel edition by Blackhawk Films / approximately 800 feet /
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TWICE TWO
(1933) complete sound edition
Laurel and Hardy play each other's wives in this novelty comedy. Stan is married
to Ollie's sister, Fannie (played hilariously by Hardy in drag!) and Ollie is
married to Stanley's sister (played, of course, by Laurel). Trick photography
matches the "four" of them convincingly. Mrs. "Laurel" plans a surprise party
for her brother Ollie complete with a big cake. The wives are no less clumsy
than their respective brothers and the sight gags and slapstick abound in this
comedy that also features some
fine pantomime humor as well. Stan Laurel's table routine with the toast and
napkin, for example was completely ad-libbed and never set down in the script.
16mm Sound / b & w / complete
2-reel comedy release by Blackhawk Films / L. N. shape........................$120.
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UTOPIA
(1950) Love it or hate it, this was the last film made by Laurel and Hardy. A film definitely ahead of it's time, Laurel and Hardy explore intrusive governments, crooked lawyers, mob mentality and see their own newly written constitution ignored and trashed by uninvited immigrants and unruly mobs! The boys inherit an island after having been fleeced by lawyers out of most everything else! Their adventures getting there include a storm that lands them on an atoll which they set up a survival with their small crew. Word gets out that the island is full of uranium and thousands from all over flock to the island to get in on the wealth. They are overthrown by communists who wish to take over but before they can be executed, another storm comes and sinks the island. Rescued, they are sent out to their own island where the government confiscates all their food and property for back taxes! The print is as close to an original I've seen with fine grain, sharp definition and good sound for a dubbed feature. The night club musical number by Suzy De Laire and her bickering scene are not part of this edition but Laurel and Hardy were never in this deleted scene that was cut prior to the American release of the film. 16mm / Sound / b & w / approximate running time is 80 minutes....................$225. |
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WAYNE & SCHUSTER LOOK AT THE
MARX BROS. (c
1965) Canadian comedy team of Wayne and Schuster hosted a series of television specials which looked back on classic era stars such as Hope and Crosby, W.C. Fields and The Marx Brothers. They introduce classic scenes from the prime era of Marx brothers films. Highlights include the classic mirror scene from "Duck Soup" among others, 16mm Sound 2-reels (approx 750') dupe of a kinescope, G-Ex shape............................$35 |
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WHEN THE
WINDS BLOWS starring Our Gang-Little Rascals featuring Jackie Cooper, Farina Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson and Chubby Chaney also starring Edgar Kennedy The working title of this film could have been "When the acting blows" as this broad farce is so corny it's hilarious! It's a windy, spooky night out and the gang are fidgety and can't seem to settle down and sleep. Jackie gets locked out of his home and Kennedy the cop mistakes him for a burglar and before you know it the whole neighborhood is screaming "Thief" as Jackie goes from one house to another trying to get some shelter from the cold, windy storm. Can you imagine everyone's surprise when Jackie falls from the second story window and lands on a real burglar? Plenty of Rube Goldberg-style gags as Farina rocks the baby and dries the laundry at the same time until Jackie disrupts everything! 16mm Sound / b & w / complete 2-reel release by Blackhawk Films / used shape / few splices near start & a line or two otherwise fine...............$59. |
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WITH LOVE AND HISSES (1927) Taken from pristine, previously un-issued pre-print materials, this early Laurel and Hardy Army comedy is seen in it's complete form for the first time in ages. Stanley is a raw recruit who understands nothing about military hierarchy, discipline or drills much to the frustration of his sergeant, Oliver Hardy and the Captain, played by James Finlayson. 16mm / b & w / complete 2-reel release ............................................SP Order (currently at $220)
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WHOOPS I'M AN INDIAN
(1937) starring The Three Stooges (Larry Moe and Curly) with Bud "Pierre" Jamison, Robert Emmett O'Connor A vintage, early Stooges classic with the three of them running a rigged gambling game in a tavern in the mounbtain wilderness. They are caught cheating and must take it on the lam. They hide out in the cabin of the burly Pierre (played excellently by Bud Jamison). They disguise themselves as Indians and through a series of circumstances, Curly, dressed as a squaw, becomes the heart-throb of Pierre who wants to marry him! Pierre says "for the honeymoon, I have ze beeg surprise!" Curly retorts, "So do I if you only knew it!" As usual, Curly's clowning carries the film and is first rate Stooge material. 16mm Sound / b & w / 2-reels (approx 750') Screen Gems original TV print.......................................$75. |
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