Three complete features from the rediscovered genius of silent comedy! These classic silent slapstick films are the high points in Harry Langdon and Frank Capra's collaboration during 1926 and 1927, culminating in some of the finest American comedies of all-time! "The Strong Man" (1926, 74 min.), "Tramp. Tramp, Tramp" (1926, 61 min.), and "Long Pants" (1927, 58 min.)
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is a silent film from 1926 that tells the story of a man who enters a cross-country race to win money and save his father's struggling business. Along the way, he faces various obstacles, falls in love, and encounters comedic mishaps.
In the small town of Pineview, Dr. John Evans is accused of malpractice after an incident with an elephant from a traveling medicine show. The trial becomes a spectacle, with sight gags and slapstick comedy. As the defense attorney defends Dr. Evans, tensions rise and the town gossip spreads. Will justice prevail in this hilarious court case?
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
In Long Pants (1927), a young man from a small town falls in love at first sight and embarks on a journey of love, revenge, and redemption. He encounters gangsters, flappers, and femme fatales along the way as he navigates through the challenges of the big city. Through his experiences, he learns about maturity, love, and the complexities of the adult world.
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.
In the bustling streets of New York City during the Roaring 20s, a gambler turned strong man struggles with blindness. Despite his disability, he experiences the joys and turmoil of romance, while dealing with his past as a criminal and his haunting memories of World War One.
No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent heroism in foiling a ring of spies.
Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.
1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend...