When Comedy Was King
- IMDb link: 0054468
- IMDb rating: 7.4 (382 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, History, Documentary
- Director: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Robert Youngson, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Charley Chase
- Cast: Oliver Hardy, Wallace Beery and others
- Release date: 29 Mar 1960
- Release year: 1960
- Runtime: 81 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: woman smokes a cigar, cigar smoking, pie in the face, compilation film, film history, silent filmmaking as subject, farce comedy as subject, slapstick comedy as subject, sketch comedy as subject, keystone kops characters
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A feature-length documentary devoted to the great clowns of silent comedy.
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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