Days of Thrills and Laughter

• Director: Robert Youngson
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• Genre: Film, TV & Radio
• Themes: Filmmaking
• Release Year: 1961
• Country: US
• Run Time: 93 minutes

Plot

This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film (The Golden Age of Comedy and When Comedy Was King directly preceded this release). As in its predecessors, this compilation looks back on the more distant past. Renowned comics like Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennet and the Keystone Kops, Fatty Arbuckle, Stan Laurel, and others are featured in some of the best moments in their filmic careers. As for the thrillers, those times when the heroine was tied to the train tracks or the hero's car balanced on the edge of a cliff, they are as hilarious in retrospect as the comedies were to that generation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

Charles Chaplin; Oliver Hardy; The Keystone Kops; Ben Turpin; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Buster Keaton; Stan Laurel; Harold Lloyd; Mack Sennett

Credit

Robert Youngson - Director, Jack Shaindlin - Composer (Music Score), Robert Youngson - Screenwriter

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The Golden Age of Comedy; When Comedy Was King; Unknown Chaplin: My Happiest Years; Unknown Chaplin: The Great Director; 30 Years of Fun; Biography: Buster Keaton