Slapstick
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What's the World Coming To?
This zany Hal Roach production of WHAT'S THE WORLD COMING TO? takes place in a future "one hundred years from now, when men have become more like women and women more like men." The film opens with the "blushing groom" approaching the altar where his tuxedoed bride awaits to...Watch Movie
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BMX Bandits
Future Academy Award®-winner Nicole Kidman made her movie debut at sixteen years old as the pouffy-haired star of this action/comedy about a cache of stolen walkie-talkies, three BMX-riding friends and the ruthless bank robbers who will pursue them through every graveyard, shopping mall,...Watch Movie
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Too Much Johnson
In 1938, three years before CITIZEN KANE, New York theater tyro Orson Welles filmed comedy sequences for his stage production of TOO MUCH JOHNSON, a rapid-fire farce of mistaken identities. The slapstick prologue features Joseph Cotten doing Harold Lloyd antics through the...Watch Movie
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The Silent Partner
Comedic genius Buster Keaton plays a former silent-film star named Kelsey Dutton. Dutton watches the Academy Awards® on television in a bar; in flashbacks, Keaton re-enacts Dutton's silent comedies. The silent-film parody is close enough to Keaton's old work to be poignant and...Watch Movie
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The Lemon Grove Kids
To settle their differences, Slug, Gopher, and The Lemon Grove Kids agree to participate in a cross-country race with their neighborhood rivals, Killer Krump and The East Lemon Grove Kids. But Duke Mazarati, formerly a member of Slug's gang and now working for Big Ed Narzak,...Watch Movie
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Too Much Johnson [workprint]
In 1938, three years before CITIZEN KANE, New York theater tyro Orson Welles filmed comedy sequences for his stage production of TOO MUCH JOHNSON, a rapid-fire farce of mistaken identities. Long assumed lost, the reels were found in 2008 and preserved through an international...Watch Movie![Watch Movie - Too Much Johnson [workprint], the Comedy by Orson Welles | Fandor](//d3uc4wuqnt61m1.cloudfront.net/films/images/000/005/698/5698.D_210_118.jpg?1478223322 "Watch Movie - Too Much Johnson [workprint], the Comedy by Orson Welles | Fandor")
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The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood!
You think your neighborhood was a fun place to grow up in? Fine. But it cannot possibly have been as much fun as Lemon Grove Avenue in Hollywood where some industry fringe-dwellers moved with their young families in 1965. Between more commercial assignments, they decide to...Watch Movie
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Fatty's Suitless Days
Fatty Arbuckle needs a suit to attend the ball. He snatches another man’s finery off the clothesline, squeezing himself into the jacket and improvising a cummerbund. What goes around comes around which, in Fatty’s case, means he’ll find himself at the ball without pants....Watch Movie
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Ambrose's Fury
When Mack Swain, suffering from his domineering wife’s orders, starts flirting with the neighbor, AMBROSE'S FURY slowly rolls to a boil. He arranges to meet the young woman for some extramarital swimming and the ocean setting invigorates the slapstick in no time. The young woman’s clothes are...Watch Movie
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Ambrose's amorous antics at the garment factory get him fired. In retaliation, he hires a couple of crooks to menace his boss but they mistakenly target the boss' daughter he fancies instead. Her mortal peril necessitates a call to the police so it's the Keystone Kops to the...Watch Movie
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Her Fame and Shame
Louise Fazenda was a natural comedienne (not unlike Carol Burnett) who rose quickly to the front ranks of early silent comedy kingpin Mack Sennett's Keystone company. Here she gets a prime role as the starstruck daughter of a provincial hotel and cafe's owner. At their...Watch Movie
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That Little Band of Gold
Fatty weds Mabel though, unfortunately, married life is a bit of a letdown for her since she's stuck at home while he goes galavanting drunkenly around town at all hours. When he reluctantly takes her and Mother out to the opera, his boorish behavior attracts the whole...Watch Movie
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Won by a Fowl
This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett's company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It's a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or...Watch Movie
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Willful Ambrose
WILLFUL AMBROSE’s farcical plot may not be much for continuity but all the better to focus on the slapstick pageantry of slipups, extramarital flirtations and enough thumps for a game of Whack-A-Mole. Mack Swain stars as a beer-guzzling, sharpshooting lout. Louise Fazenda is his wife and pretty...Watch Movie
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All Wet
"Snub" Pollard plays a hick whose pa packs him off to his aunt's home in the big city. He fits in awkwardly with her hoity society world. News of his oil-well inheritance makes the more mercenary flappers pay attention, notably a vampish cousin (named Cleopatra, no less). It's a funny...Watch Movie
