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THIS IS AMERICAN SLAPSTICK...an irreverent, anarchic, deeply optimistic reaction to the roiling troubles of the world between 1914-1929.
These are the silent comedians who built American Slapstick: immigrants, outcasts and hard-up outsiders who personified the American Dream, becoming movie stars, heroes, icons.
And here are their films. If you’re looking for subtlety and refinement, drop this disc and run away. Instead expect to find: exploding cars, innocent bystanders smacked in the head with hammers, half-naked underwear models chased by cross-dressing villains, auctioneers crawling across airplane wings to retrieve false teeth, memory-impaired lovers, somnambulists, drunken reprobates, deranged acrobats, and the Keystone Kops.
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