Celebrate Silent Film
Anita Garvin and Marion Byron star as a pair of struggling singles whose double date doesn’t go as planned when it turns out the guys in question are a pair of, well, tights. The quest for ice cream descends into a signature Hal Roach tit for tat battle. Chaos ensues, is what I’m saying.
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Know what’s really fun about silent movies? Spotting old friends whose silent work may not be super well known. Edgar Kennedy is famous for his work as a tough talking character actor in such iconic films as Duck Soup and A Star is Born but he was also a silent film veteran from way back, appearing in Keystone comedies and character parts through the 1910s and 1920s.
A Jewish family living in New York must cope with an empty nest when their two sons leave home, one to be a lawyer and the other, much to his father’s chagrin, to be a boxer. A modernized Jacob and Esau tale, this sensitive film is also one of the finest family dramas to come out of the silent era.
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