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The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) is a compilation of silent comedy films from the Mack Sennett and Hal Roach studios, written and produced by Robert Youngson. Youngson had previously produced several award-winning short documentaries beforehand, and this was the first compilation of its kind in feature-length form.
The Golden Age of Comedy: Directed by Robert Youngson. With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard. A compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films.
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- Comedy, Documentary
- Robert Youngson
- 1958-03
- Ight at The Opera (1935) - 7.9
- Livan's Travels (1941) - 7.9
- Girl Friday (1940) - 7.9
- Eled Lady (1936) - 7.9
- Uble in Paradise (1932) - 8.0
- Man Godfrey (1936) - 8.0
- Thin Man (1934) - 8.0
- D Hearts and Coronets (1949) - 8.0
- Happened One Night (1934) - 8.1
- Gold Rush (1925) - 8.2
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Sullivan's Travels is undoubtedly one of the best movies about making movies. It follows a successful but often lambasted Hollywood movie director who decides to live as a vagabond in order to get inspiration for his next movie, which he wants to be taken more seriously. But throughout his journey, he learns a lot more than he expected. The movie u...
An editor is concerned when his bet reporter plans to quit in order to get married. He thus does his best to prevent this from happening, including dumping the "story of the year" on him, which involves a serial killer that has just escaped from jail. RELATED: The 10 Longest Comedy Movies, Ranked By Runtime Part of His Girl Friday's appeal comes fr...
A woman wants to sue a newspaper for defaming her. The paper's management thus rehires its former star journalist and instructs him to woo her and then paint a scandal on her. Despite the malicious nature of the plot, the fast-paced humor of Libeled Ladyprevents it from being the dark movie it could have otherwise been. The director manages to inco...
German-born director Ernst Lubitsch's style was known as “The Lubitsch Touch” since he enjoyed creating complex comedies set in lush places. Here is no different. Thieves Gaston and Lily fall in love in Venice as they try to steal from each other. They then target a wealthy widow in Paris who runs a perfume company, but Gaston ends up falling in lo...
A socialite from the wealthy Bullock family hires a homeless man to be the new butler and she ends up falling in love with him. But the man has motives too. Once he's deep in the family, he looks for devious ways to make other homeless people benefit too. RELATED: 10 Classic Black And White Movies We'd Love To See Colorized The movie has some simil...
Based on Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same name, The Thin Man is arguably one of the best book-to-movie adaptations of all time. In it, a police officer and his new wife care more about the luxuries of life than anything else. However, their lives soon become complicated when a daughter convinces them to help her track down her missing father. P...
In Kind Hearts And Coronets, a broke aristocrat decides to eliminate eight relatives who are blocking his goal to become the Duke. He decides to go about it in an unconventional manner and there are consequences. When it comes to characters, the movie feels like a buffet of delicious offerings. Every single person is different and complicated. Ther...
An heiress runs away from her overprotective father and decides to ride the bus. There, she meets a reporter with whom she falls in love. Given her wealth of background information, the reporter struggles on whether to just remain a good partner or to use her story as his big break. RELATED: 10 Great Black Actors From Hollywood's Golden Age The pan...
The Gold Rush is considered one of Charlie Chaplin's best moviesand in it, he portrays a man named Lone Prospector during the 1898 Yukon gold rush. On a snowy Alaskan day, he finds himself holed up in a cabin with fellow miners, the evil Black Larsen and Big Jim McClain. There is no food, there are bears outside and there's also a local girl who al...
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La Grande époque The Golden Age of Comedy. Robert Youngson. Etats-Unis / 1957 / 3 min. Fatty Arbuckle, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Ben Turpin, Jean Harlow. La Grande époque est l'évocation d'un monde disparu.
Robert Youngson's The Golden Age of Comedy (1957), a compilation of great slapstick scenes from the silent era, began as a short subject featuring vintage clips from the Mack Sennett vaults. After writer/producer/director Youngson acquired high-quality prints of other silent comedies from the studios of Hal Roach, he was able to expand his ...
The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) réalisé par Robert Youngson. L'information sur le film, genre, classement, durée, photos, bande-annonce, synopsis et critiques des usagers.
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
