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Max Davidson comedies
Title
Max Davidson comedies / Leo McCarey.
Published
[München] : Edition Filmmuseum : Film & Kunst, ©2011.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (257 min.) : sound, black and white and tinted black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures 1927-1931.
New scores by Joachim Bärenz, Christian Roderburg, Günter A. Buchwald, and Stephen Horne.
"Eine Präsentation der Film & Kunst GmbH in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Filmmuseum München"--Container.
Accompanying booklet in German and English contains essays by Stefan Drössler, Stewart Tryster, Richard W. Bann, and Steve Massa.
Special DVD-ROM features include: essays, scripts, stills, reviews, and cutting continuities.
Directors, Leo McCarey, Clyde Bruckman, Fred Guiol, Hal Yates, Arch Heath, Hal Roach, Lewis R. Foster ; producers, Hal Roach Studios, Larry Darmour Productions ; writers, Leo McCarey, Hal Roach, Stan Laurel, Edgar Vincent Durling, Frank Gay ; cinematographers, Frank Young, Len Powers, Floyd Jackman, George Stevens.
Chiefly silent films with musical accompaniment and English intertitles; optional subtitles in German.
Summary
"Max Davidson (1875-1950) is one of the numerous forgotten Hollywood supporting actors who acted in innumerable movies. His heyday was in the late 1920s when he was engaged at the Hal Roach Studios for a series of Jewish comedies which belong to the best and funniest shorts the studio ever produced. The 2-disc DVD set presents all the existing comedies as well as Davidson's first sound film and documentation of the lost films with rare scripts and more than 300 unpublished stills. All films focus on Davidson as the henpecked Jewish family father who has to struggle with his good-for-nothing son(s) and a daughter who falls in love with a non-Jewish boy."--Container.
Variant and related titles
Leo McCarey : Max Davidson comedies
Why girls say no.
Jewish prudence.
Don't tell everything.
Should second husbands come first?
Flaming fathers.
Hurdy gurdy.
Call of the cuckoo.
Love 'em and feed 'em.
Pass the gravy.
Dumb daddies.
Came the dawn.
Boy friend.
Itching hour.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2017
Series
Edition Filmmuseum ; 58
Credits
Directors, Leo McCarey, Clyde Bruckman, Fred Guiol, Hal Yates, Arch Heath, Hal Roach, Lewis R. Foster ; producers, Hal Roach Studios, Larry Darmour Productions ; writers, Leo McCarey, Hal Roach, Stan Laurel, Edgar Vincent Durling, Frank Gay ; cinematographers, Frank Young, Len Powers, Floyd Jackman, George Stevens.
Cast
Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell, Martha Sleeper, Jesse De Vorska, Lillian Elliott, Gene Morgan.
System details note
DVD; PAL, all regions; TV format, 4:3; original format, 1.33:1; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Contents
Disc 1. Why girls say no / Leo McCarey (1927, 23 min.) ; Jewish prudence / Leo McCarey (1927, 21 min.) ; Don't tell everything / Leo McCarey (1927, 23 min.) ; Should second husbands come first? / Leo McCarey (1927, 21 min.) ; Flaming fathers / Leo McCarey (1927, 25 min.) ; Hurdy gurdy/ Hal Roach (1929, 20 min.)
Disc 2. Call of the cuckoo / Clyde Bruckman (1927, 19 min.) ; Love 'em and feed 'em / Clyde Bruckman (1927, 9 min., tinted) ; Pass the gravy / Fred Guiol (1928, 25 min.) ; Dumb daddies / Hal Yates (1928, 15 min.) ; Came the dawn / Arch Heath (1928, 17 min., tinted) ; Boy friend aka Boyfriend / Fred Guiol (1928, 20 min.) ; Itching hour / Lewis R. Foster (1931, 19 min.).
Videorecording number
58 Edition Filmmuseum
Genre/Form
Comedy films.
Drama.
Short films.
Silent films.
Comedy films.
Short films.
Silent films.
Also listed under
Hal Roach Studios.
Larry Darmour Productions (Firm)
Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)
Film & kunst GmbH.
Münchner Stadtmuseum. Abteilung Film.
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