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Charley Bowers
The Rediscovery of an
American Comic Genius
(1917-1940)

Contents: Grill-Room Express [The Extra Quick Lunch] (1917), A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), Egged On (1926), Fatal Footsteps (1926), He Done His Best (1926), Now You Tell One (1926), Many a Slip (1927), Nothing Doing (1927), A Wild Roomer (1927), Say Ah-h! (1928) [fragment], It’s a Bird (1930), Believe It or Don’t (1935), Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1938), Wild Oysters (1940) and A Sleepless Night (1940).

Lobster Films
2004 DVD edition

Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius (1917-1940), black & white, 233 minutes total, not rated,
including Grill-Room Express [The Extra Quick Lunch] (1917), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Egged On (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Fatal Footsteps (1926), black & white, 22 minutes. not rated, He Done His Best (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Now You Tell One (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Many a Slip (1927), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Nothing Doing (1927), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, A Wild Roomer (1927), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Say Ah-h! (1928) [fragment], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, It’s a Bird (1930), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Believe It or Don’t (1935), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1938), black & white, 16 minutes, not rated, Wild Oysters (1940), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, A Sleepless Night (1940), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated.

Lobster Films, distributed by Image Entertainment,
ID2268LQDVD, UPC 0-14381-22682-9.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase; $39.99.
Release date: 24 February 2004.
Country of origin: USA •

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This DVD collection has been mastered from very-good to excellent 35mm prints — some that are incomplete and some that are beginning to decompose.

The films feature optional musical accompaniment by Marc Perrone (5.1 surround), Bruno Letart (2.0 stereo) and Neil Brand (2.0 stereo).

For our reviews of individual films in the collection, see our A.W.O.L. on Home Video page.

This recommended edition is now out-of-print, but it can be found as a used item (or as an overpriced new item). A modified version of this collection was released on Blu-ray Disc by Flicker Alley in 2019.

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