← ← Back
When Comedy Was King
🎬 Movie

When Comedy Was King

1960 · 81 min Drama Comedy Documentary
6.2 / 10 · TMDB

Трогательная, ностальгическая ретроспектива Роберта Янгсона о Золотом веке немой комедии с особым вниманием к трем признанным гениям комиксов того времени: Чарли Чаплину, Бастеру Китону и Гарри Лэндону. О двух крупнейших комедийных студиях той эпохи, Мака Сеннетта и Хэла Роуча. О комиках Лореле и Харди, которые считаются великими новаторами в области визуальной комедии-фарса.

📺 Where to Watch

Checking availability...

🎬 MovieFinder's Take

Youngson employs editing as a time machine, splicing archival footage into a living textbook of comedy. His approach is not mere chronicle, but a dissection of gag anatomy through specific masters.

What lingers after viewing is the sensation of peering into cinema's inner sanctum, where every frame feels like an invention. It frames humor as a precise, visual science. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Robert Youngson

🕯️

Best Watched

The flicker of a dusty projector in a film archive, the scent of celluloid, and bursts of silent, geometric slapstick.

🎭 Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

edited from 'Teddy at The throttle' (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

edited from 'His Trysting Place, ' 'The Masqurader, ' and 'Kid Auto at Venice.' (archive footage)

Charley Chase

Charley Chase

edited from 'Movie Night' (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)

Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy

edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)

Harry Langdon

Harry Langdon

edited from 'The First 100 Years'

Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

🎬 Similar Movies

💬 Audience Reviews

Write a Review

Quick rating — tap to vote:

Or write a full review:

0/2000