Scan the credits of some of the best-known comedy films of the silent era and one name appears again and again: Clyde Bruckman. Continue reading
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Revisiting Walter Kerr’s THE SILENT CLOWNS
This Saturday night, November 14, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum will screen the remarkable Raymond Griffith vehicle and Civil War comedy, Hands Up! An almost-always dapper and unflappable gentleman, Griffith could get into the most bizarre situations and get out of them again with seeming ease. And if memory serves (I haven’t seen the film in decades), Hands Up! is a minor gem. Continue reading
