Three's a Crowd / The Chaser
(1927)| actors: | Harry Langdon, Gladys McConnell, Cornelius Keefe, Helen Hayward, Bud Jamison, Charles Thurston |
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| director: | Harry Langdon |
| genre: | Silent, Comedy |
| line: | Kino Video |
| year: | 1927 |
| length: | 124 minutes |
| released: | June 03, 2008 |
| format: | DVD |
| misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| language: | English (Original Language) |
Synopsis
With his quizzical expression and childlike demeanor, Harry Langdon was one of the slapstick cinema's brightest stars, a low-key alternative to his more fast-paced contemporaries. His hard-luck persona always had a melancholy air as he ambled through life, blissfully ignorant of the pitfalls of modernity. In 1927, enjoying the power that came with owning his own production company, Langdon steered his trademark character even further from the conventionalized slapstick of his Mack Sennett background.
Three's a Crowd (1927, 61 min.)
Harry Langdon's directorial debut didn't just dabble in pathos, it plunged its hapless hero into a netherworld of loneliness worthy of Samuel Beckett (a self-avowed Langdon fan). Harry stars as a slum-dweller who invites a freezing woman (Gladys McConnell), pregnant with another man's child, into his home. Nursing mother and child back to health, he achieves his dream of having a family... or so he hopes.
The Chaser (1928, 63 min.)
The Chaser is a dark comedy in which a carousing Harry is ordered by a judge to swap domestic duties (and clothing) with his wife. Deprived of his manliness, Harry contemplates suicide while coping with flirtatious salesmen and the scorn of a former comrade.
Three's a Crowd (1927, 61 min.)
Harry Langdon's directorial debut didn't just dabble in pathos, it plunged its hapless hero into a netherworld of loneliness worthy of Samuel Beckett (a self-avowed Langdon fan). Harry stars as a slum-dweller who invites a freezing woman (Gladys McConnell), pregnant with another man's child, into his home. Nursing mother and child back to health, he achieves his dream of having a family... or so he hopes.
The Chaser (1928, 63 min.)
The Chaser is a dark comedy in which a carousing Harry is ordered by a judge to swap domestic duties (and clothing) with his wife. Deprived of his manliness, Harry contemplates suicide while coping with flirtatious salesmen and the scorn of a former comrade.