Cut To The Chase: The Charley Chase Collection

Teenager Charles Joseph Parrott of Baltimore, Maryland started out in vaudeville during the rough and tumble days. In one short decade, however, Charles Parrott became Charley Chase, one of the great geniuses and stars of Hollywood's golden era of silent comedy. As renowned as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd at the time, Chase easily matched them laugh for laugh. The always-dapper Chase specialized in portraying the pleasant common man with very common skills placed in the most uncommon of circumstances.

Chase's best performances at the Hal Roach studios were directed by the legendary Leo McCarey (Make Way For Tomorrow, Duck Soup) and featured great character actors of the day - including Bull Montana, Max Davidson and the lovely Katherine Grant. Also found alongside Chase, in Isn't Life Terrible, is a very young, funny and extremely beautiful Fay Wray!

Years in the making, this amazing Charley Chase collection features more than five hours of hilarity from the height of Chase's career. The Uneasy Three (from 35mm print at the Museum of Modern Art) and Charley My Boy (from a 16mm print from the John Hampton Collection, courtesy of the Stanford Theater Foundation) are exclusive to this release.

Films Include:

April Fool

The Fraidy Cat

Bad Boy

The Caretaker's Daughter

Be Your Age

Bromo And Juliet

Dog Shy

Charley My Boy

The Uneasy Three

Innocent Husbands

Isn't Life Terrible?

What Price Goofy?

Long Fliv The King

Mama Behave

Mighty Like A Moose

Mum's The Word

Upplagd i sortimentet: 10 maj, 2022