Topic: Cut to the Chase - The Charley Chase Comedy Collection - 11/6

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The silent work of Three Stooges director Charley Chase is being celebrated in a two disc set entitled Cut to the Chase - The Charley Chase Comedy Collection. It streets on 11/6.

From Classic Flix (http://www.classicflix.com/milestone-chase-november-a-1291.html)

Milestone has announced a November 6th release date for Cut to the Chase - The Charley Chase Comedy Collection.

The 2-disc set contains 16 shorts with more than half making their DVD debut. Bonus features are not expected. Details below.

Charles Joseph Parrott of Baltimore, Maryland started out in vaudeville during the rough and tumble days in the first decade of the 20th century. Exactly 100 years ago this year, this young man fresh off the stage, started working at the Christie Film Company. During the next decade he worked as a juvenile lead, a gag writer and a comedy director. When he changed his name to Charley Chase and found himself featured in the Hal Roach s short comedies, he became one of the great geniuses and stars of Hollywood s golden era of silent comedy.

As renowned as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd at the time, Chase easily matched them laugh for laugh. The always-dapper Chase specialized in portraying the pleasant common man with very common skills placed in the most uncommon of circumstances.

Chase's best performances at the Roach studio were directed by the legendary Leo McCarey (Make Way for Tomorrow, Duck Soup) and featured great character actors of the day including Bull Montana, Max Davidson and the lovely Katherine Grant. Years in the making, this amazing Charley Chase collection features more than five hours of comic masterpieces from the height of Chase's career.

DISC 1:
Innocent Husbands (1925, 21 min.) Score by Donald Sosin
What Price Goofy (1925, 21 min.) Score by Mont Alto
Bad Boy (1925, 19 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
Isn’t Life Terrible (1925, 20 min.) Score by Dave Drazin
Dog Shy (1926, 20 min.) Score by Ben Model
Mama Behave (1926, 20 min.) Score by Dave Drazin
Bromo and Juliet (1926, 21 min.)  Score by Dave Knutsen

DISC 2:
Fraidy Cat (1924, 12 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
April Fool (1924, 10 min.) Score by Dave Knutsen
Be Your Age (1926, 20 min.) Score by Ben Model
Caretaker’s Daughter (1925, 19 min.) Score by Dave Drazin
The Uneasy Three (1925, 20 min.) Score by Ben Model
Mums the Word (1926, 19 min.) Score by Donald Sosin
Long Fliv the King (1926, 20 min.) Score by Mont Alto
Mighty Like a Moose (1926, 20 min.) Score by Mont Alto
Charley My Boy! (1925, 23 min.)  Score by Ben Model

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I'll definitely be picking this up but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping this was a collection of his shorts for Columbia.

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I'll definitely be picking this up but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping this was a collection of his shorts for Columbia.

When I first saw it, I was hoping for the same (or even his sound era Roach stuff).