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A Doggone Mixup (1938) - Harry Langdon
HomokHarcos:
--- Quote from: metaldams on December 17, 2020, 08:07:53 PM ---Cool. I’ll have to check it out. The Langdon bios are all expensive, but I’ll cave in one day,
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I usually like buying physical books, but it was expensive so I bought the Kindle edition. I'd definitely recommend this book for Harry Langdon.
Umbrella Sam:
I’ve been wanting to read up more on Langdon too, but those biographies really are very expensive. For that matter, the books on Charley Chase are way too expensive as well.
Umbrella Sam:
Well, it’s not great, but I wouldn’t really call this short terrible either. I do see Paul’s points about the plot holes, but they’re all minor things that I don’t think really affects the characters’ personalities, which usually tends to be my problem with plot holes.
As far as this short goes, the best moments are at the beginning and the end. At the beginning, I like when Langdon tricks his boss by standing behind him and I also like how Harry become impressed with “genuine imitation”. The climax, on the other hand, is essentially THE GOLD RUSH meets MICKEY’S TRAILER, but I mean that in a good way. It’s fun and I can see metaldams’s point about not quite milking it enough, but for a Columbia short, I think this is actually quite impressive by their standards. The supporting cast is great; Ann Doran, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, all do well in their roles.
Unfortunately, the middle of this film is pretty tedious, and it all amounts to the fact that it’s simply the dog causing trouble and not much else. Yeah, they try to throw in stuff with Harry knocking stuff over, but it’s just not that special and outside of the scene with him praying, I didn’t particularly enjoy it. So, yeah, it is pretty boring for a good amount of it, but I still enjoyed at least some of it.
6 out of 10
metaldams:
--- Quote from: Umbrella Sam on December 19, 2020, 12:15:03 AM ---I’ve been wanting to read up more on Langdon too, but those biographies really are very expensive. For that matter, the books on Charley Chase are way too expensive as well.
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Yup! Exactly, Chase is the other one, same scenario.
I’m not good with these apps. I know one of the Langdon books is available cheap on Kindle like Harkos mentioned, but I’m not sure what I have is compatible with Kindle. I download books from iTunes and they show up on some app on my iPad. I got Buster and Rob Halford’s auto biographies that way. Langdon’s is on Amazon.
Umbrella Sam:
--- Quote from: metaldams on December 19, 2020, 04:11:02 PM ---Yup! Exactly, Chase is the other one, same scenario.
I’m not good with these apps. I know one of the Langdon books is available cheap on Kindle like Harkos mentioned, but I’m not sure what I have is compatible with Kindle. I download books from iTunes and they show up on some app on my iPad. I got Buster and Rob Halford’s auto biographies that way. Langdon’s is on Amazon.
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I occasionally use iBooks if I don’t feel like having to order a book and waiting for it to arrive, but generally I tend to prefer actually having physical copies of books. I just checked and it looks like Harry Langdon: King of Silent Comedy is available through iBooks, but not Little Elf.
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