| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Cut to the Chase - The Charley Chase Comedy Collection November 6th Milestone Retail: $34.95, Our: $27.99 |   |
Milestone has announced a November 6th release date for Cut to the Chase - The Charley Chase Comedy Collection.
The 2-disc set contains 16 shorts with more than half making their DVD debut. Bonus features are not expected. Details below.
Charles Joseph Parrott of Baltimore, Maryland started out in vaudeville during the rough and tumble days in the first decade of the 20th century. Exactly 100 years ago this year, this young man fresh off the stage, started working at the Christie Film Company. During the next decade he worked as a juvenile lead, a gag writer and a comedy director. When he changed his name to Charley Chase and found himself featured in the Hal Roach s short comedies, he became 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 Roach studio 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. Years in the making, this amazing Charley Chase collection features more than five hours of comic masterpieces from the height of Chase's career.
DISC 1:
- Innocent Husbands (1925, 21 min.) Score by Donald Sosin
- What Price Goofy (1925, 21 min.) Score by Mont Alto
- Bad Boy (1925, 19 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
- Isn’t Life Terrible (1925, 20 min.) Score by Dave Drazin
- Dog Shy (1926, 20 min.) Score by Ben Model
- Mama Behave (1926, 20 min.) Score by Dave Drazin
- Bromo and Juliet (1926, 21 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
- Fraidy Cat (1924, 12 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
- April Fool (1924, 10 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
- Be Your Age (1926, 20 min.) Score by Ben Model
- Caretaker’s Daughter (1925, 19 min.) Score by Dave Drazin
- The Uneasy Three (1925, 20 min.) Score by Ben Model
- Mums the Word (1926, 19 min.) Score by Donald Sosin
- Long Fliv the King (1926, 20 min.) Score by Mont Alto
- Mighty Like a Moose (1926, 20 min.) Score by Mont Alto
- Charley My Boy! (1925, 23 min.) Score by Ben Model
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