In The Golden Age of Comedy, take a trip back to classic Hollywood with a compilation of scenes featuring some of the best-known comics from the silent era in their best films — Including the legendary Laurel and Hardy.
Act I – The Laugh Factory
Featuring several Mack Sennett comedies. Films included are
- The Hollywood Kid
- with Charles Murray, Louise Carver, Vernon Dent
- Wandering Willies
- with Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Kewpie Morgan
- classic bit with Billy Bevan versus the oyster in the stew
- Musclebound Music
- Billy Bevan with Dave Morris
- Wall Street Blues
- Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Edgar Kennedy
- Circus Today
- with Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Kewpie Morgan
- A funny short film with many funny gags, btw.
Act Two – Nobody Liked Them But The Public.
Laurel and Hardy comedies, including
- Habeas Corpus
- The Second Hundred Years
- We Faw Down (identified by its British title We Slip Up)
- the famous climactic pie fight from The Battle of the Century.
Act Three – The Cowboy Who Became a Legend
- Will Rogers in Uncensored Movies
- Tom Mix
Act Four – Two Unforgotten Girls
Featuring Carole Lombard in Run Girl Run and Jean Harlow in the Laurel and Hardy comedy Double Whoopee.
Act Five – The Great Actor
Highlighting Ben Turpin in several shorts he made for Mack Sennett.
Act Six – A Comedy Classic.
Laurel and Hardy’s Two Tars.
Act Seven – So Funny, So Sad
An extract from a Harry Langdon comedy, The Luck o’ the Foolish.
Act Eight – Animal Comedy.
Several examples of humour from animals such as dogs, cats and lions, with Billy Bevan, Charley Chase, Andy Clyde, Harry Gribbon and Kewpie Morgan. Titles featured include The Sting of Stings and Nip and Tuck.
Finale – Two Men On a Street
The shin-kicking, pants-ripping street battle sequence from Laurel and Hardy’s You’re Darn Tootin’.
Cast of characters
- Stan Laurel (Berth Marks) … Stan (archive footage) (as Laurel)
- Ward Wilson … Self – Narrator (voice)
- Oliver Hardy (Double Whoopee) … Ollie (archive footage) (as Hardy)
- Will Rogers … (archive footage)
- Carole Lombard … (archive footage)
- Jean Harlow (Bacon Grabbers) … (archive footage)
- Ben Turpin (His New Job) … Rodney St. Clair (archive footage)
- Harry Langdon (The Big Flash) … (archive footage)
- Charley Chase (Sons of the Desert) … (archive footage) (as Charlie Chase)
- Billy Bevan (Hoboken to Hollywood) … (archive footage)
- Andy Clyde (A Sea Dog’s Tale) … Andy (archive footage)
- Harry Gribbon … (archive footage)
Additional cast
- Edgar Dearing (The Midnight Patrol) … Policeman at car fight (archive footage)
- Madalynne Field … Fat Girl Track Competitor (archive footage)
- Thelma Hill (Two Tars) … Brunette Girlfriend (archive footage)
- Madeline Hurlock (Days of Thrills and Laughter) … Circus showgirl (archive footage)
- Edgar Kennedy (Should Married Men Go Home?) … (archive footage)
- Daphne Pollard (Bonnie Scotland) … Coach (archive footage)
- Al St. John (His Prehistoric Past) … (archive footage)
- Ford Sterling (A Film Johnnie) … Keystone Kop (archive footage)
- Dwight Weist … Narrator
- Vernon Dent (Half-Wits Holiday) … (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Kewpie Morgan (Laurel and Hardy’s March of the Wooden Soldiers) … (archive footage) (uncredited)
- John J. Richardson (Movie Crazy) … (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mack Sennett (Days of Thrills and Laughter) … Mack Sennett (archive footage) (uncredited)