The Charley Chase Collection
Charley Chase, the man who elevated situation comedy to a hilarious art form in six two reel comedies
Black and White. Restoration from original elements.
121 mins.
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Charley Chase was the proverbial comic with good looks, who almost always got the girl (he usually had her at the beginning) He was what the ’20s were all about. Carefree, frivolous, wild and woolly, he was the “Good Time Charley” that we all wished we could be. – Stan Taffel is a three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and film archivist.

• Mum’s The Word
1926 24 Min.
Charley poses as a butler for his newly remarried mother until the suspicious new papa can get used to his "son".
• Long Fliv The King
1926 25 Min. Having to marry within 24 hours or she won’t become Queen, a Princess (Martha Sleeper) looks for any man that will say yes. Fine performances by Oliver Hardy and legendary Jewish comic Max Davidson as Charley’s valet, Warfield. Watch for the food tasting sequence when Davidson refuses to eat the “ham.”
• April Fool
1924 12 Min.
What happens when you tell someone that they can’t trick you on April Fool’s Day? They do anything to get you, and that’s the gauntlet poor Charley lays down to coworker Noah Young in this breezy one reel comedy.
• Mighty Like A Moose
1926 23 Min.
A couple with outrageous facial features transform themselves so even they can’t recognize each other Not just one of Charley Chase’s best films, one of the finest two reel comedies made in the entire silent era!
• Crazy Like A Fox
1926 25 Min.
When two capitalists arrange a marriage between their children, the groom-to-be conjures up a scheme to make his prospective bride (Martha Sleeper) and in-laws think he’s nuts! A tour de force for Charley as he delivers one of the funniest crazy man routines ever filmed. Oliver Hardy plays an innocent victim of Charley’s escapades.
• All Wet
1924 12 Min.
While driving to meet a train, Charley gets into some car trouble. That’s putting it modestly. One of the best Chase / McCarey one reel outings, this film was reworked and borrowed from by virtually every silent film comic.