Stars:
Charlie Chaplin,
Marie Dressler,
Mabel Normand,
Mack Swain,
Charles Bennett,
Chester Conklin,
Buster Keaton,
Tom McGuire,
Ernest Torrence,
Marion Byron,
Tom Lewis
Director:
Mack Sennett
Summary: This collection presents three titans of comedy in three classic films: Charlie Chaplin in TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE, Buster Keaton in STEAMBOAT BILL JR., and Danny Kaye in THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. <BR>TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE: A grifter (Charlie Chaplin) persuades a naive country girl to run away with him to the big city, where he cleans out her savings and breaks her heart. Undaunted, she wins back her mercenary Romeo with her inheritance. This pioneering silent film is the first full-length comedy feature.<BR>STEAMBOAT BILL JR.: Buster Keaton plays the mild-mannered son of a steamboat captain caught in the middle of the bitter rivalry between his father and another Mississippi riverboat owner. This silent classic contains the famous stunt in which a house collapses on Keaton yet he emerges unharmed.<BR>THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: When a town clown is forced to impersonate a visiting inspector general, he soon becomes the target for murder and mayhem. This charming musical, based on the play by Russian dramatist Nikolai Gogol, stars the inimitable comic jester Danny Kaye.
This collection presents three titans of comedy in three classic films: Charlie Chaplin in TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE, Buster Keaton in STEAMBOAT BILL JR., and Danny Kaye in THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.
TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE: A grifter (Charlie Chaplin) persuades a naive country girl to run away with him to the big city, where he cleans out her savings and breaks her heart. Undaunted, she wins back her mercenary Romeo with her inheritance. This pioneering silent film is the first full-length comedy feature.
STEAMBOAT BILL JR.: Buster Keaton plays the mild-mannered son of a steamboat captain caught in the middle of the bitter rivalry between his father and another Mississippi riverboat owner. This silent classic contains the famous stunt in which a house collapses on Keaton yet he emerges unharmed.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: When a town clown is forced to impersonate a visiting inspector general, he soon becomes the target for murder and mayhem. This charming musical, based on the play by Russian dramatist Nikolai Gogol, stars the inimitable comic jester Danny Kaye.