When Comedy Was King
- IMDb link: 0054468
- IMDb rating: 7.4 (383 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, History, Documentary
- Director: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Robert Youngson, Charley Chase, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Cast: Wallace Beery, Oliver Hardy and others
- Release date: 29 Mar 1960
- Release year: 1960
- Runtime: 81 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: woman smokes a cigar, cigar smoking, slapstick comedy, pie in the face, sketch comedy movie, sketch comedy, silent comedy, compilation film, film history, tied to railroad tracks
Plot:
Robert Youngson's affectionate, nostalgic retrospective of the Golden Age of Silent Comedy with special attention to the three acknowledged comic geniuses of the period: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. The two major comedy studios of the era, Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, especially Laurel and Hardy, are given credit as the great innovators of slapstick visual comedy.
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