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Post #198723

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OgOggilby
Parent topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
7-Apr-2006, 3:41 AM
Wow, finally some watchable quality sources? You know, if you obtain them, I'll just send over a DVD-R with all the clips.

BTW, you probably know this already, but the silent comedian Naisbitt was talking about is Harry Langdon. Here's a picture of him...

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/halnon/capra/langdon.jpg

I wish I could find a better image, but I think you can see the similarities. Langdon's character usually was shy and child-like. A lot of elements of Tack saving the city mirror the ending of The Strong Man (Langdon's best film).

While it's only speculation... if Williams was quite savvy about silents, I wonder if Mighty One-Eye was inspired by Eric Cambell (the villian in most of the twelve 2-reel comedies Charlie Chaplin made for Mutual Films in 1916):

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6144/cure0vb.jpg