Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961) starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Houdini …
Days of Thrills and Laughter is an appreciative, nostalgic look back at classic silent film comedies and thrillers. Ranging from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1920s. Lots of excellent comedies that were new to me …
Film shorts & snippets
- Snub Pollard at the movie theater
The Keystones
- Mack Sennett in the movie theater
- Keystone Kops
- The Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties
Up from Keystone
- Charlie Chaplin
- escaping prison in The Adventurer, vying for Edna Purviance with Eric Campbell
- fighting with the revolving door in The Cure, etc.
The Dashing American
- Douglas Fairbanks in Wild and Wooly
Comedy’s Golden Twenties
- Snub Pollard in Spot Cash
- Al St. John
- Oliver Hardy
- Stan Laurel (his Hickory Hiram character)
- Ben Turpin in Asleep at the Switch
- Harry Langdon and Vernon Dent in All Night Long
- Martha Sleeper and Arthur Stone in Sherlock Sleuth
- Snub Pollard vs Nasty Noah
The Thrillers
- Harry Houdini in The Master Mystery, The Man from Beyond
- Pearl White in The Lightning Raider, The Perils of Pauline (with Warner Oland)
- Ruth Roland
- Walter Miller vs Boris Karloff
- Montage of various movie serial cliff hangers.
Thrills and Laughter
- Monty Banks in Play Safe
Three for the Road
- Snub Pollard as bell hop
- Snub Pollard in The Joy Rider
- Charley Chase getting soaked (very funny)
Cast of characters
- Douglas Fairbanks … Self (archive footage)
- Charlie Chaplin (The Rink, City Lights) … Self (archive footage)
- Stan Laurel (Pack Up Your Troubles, Our Relations) … Self (archive footage)
- Oliver Hardy (Below Zero, Zenobia) … Self (archive footage)
- Harry Houdini (The Master Mystery) Harry Houdini … Self (archive footage) (as Houdini)
- Pearl White … Self (archive footage)
- Harry Langdon (The Big Flash) … Self (archive footage)
- Ben Turpin (The Champion) … Self (archive footage)
- Charley Chase (Those Love Pangs) … Self (archive footage)
- ‘Snub’ Pollard (From Hand to Mouth) … Self (archive footage)
- Mack Sennett (His New Job) … Self (archive footage)
- Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle (Coney Island) … Self (archive footage)
- Mabel Normand (Mabel at the Wheel) … Self (archive footage)
- Ford Sterling (A Film Johnnie) … Self (archive footage)
- Boris Karloff (The Body Snatcher) … Self (archive footage)
- Warner Oland (Werewolf of London, Charlie Chan) … Self (archive footage)
- Ruth Roland (The Adventures of Ruth) … Self (archive footage)
- Monty Banks (Great Guns, Atta Boy) … Self (archive footage)
- Al St. John (Caught in a Cabaret) … Self (archive footage)
- Jay Jackson (4 Clowns) … Narrator (archive footage)
Additional cast
- Eric Campbell (The Immigrant) … Self (archive footage)
- Al Christie … Self (archive footage)
- Vernon Dent (Hoboken to Hollywood) … Self (archive footage)
- George J. Lewis … Self (archive footage)
- Walter Miller … Self (archive footage)
- Marie Mosquini … Self (archive footage)
- Eileen Percy … Self (archive footage)
- Edna Purviance (The Pilgrim) … Self (archive footage)
- Martha Sleeper … Self (archive footage)
- Arthur Stone … Self (archive footage)
- Noah Young … Self (archive footage)
- Madeline Hurlock … Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Kewpie Morgan … Self (archive footage) (uncredited)