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Max Davidson
Comedies
(1927-1931)
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Contents: Why Girls Say No (1927), Jewish Prudence (1927), Don’t Tell Everything (1927), Call of the Cuckoo (1927), Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927), Flaming Fathers (1927), Pass the Gravy (1928), Dumb Daddies (1928), Came the Dawn (1928), The Boy Friend (1928), Hurdy Gurdy (1929) and The Itching Hour (1931).
This collection focuses the films of comedian Max Davidson at the Hal Roach Studios. Popular for playing Jewish characters and exploring themes of everyday life for the immigrant American, Davidson was star of a successful series of short comedies for the Roach studio.
The collection includes ten silent comedies, as well as the first Roach talkie comedy and an early sound film from the 1930s.
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 Edition Filmmuseum
2011 DVD edition
Max Davidson Comedies (1927-1931), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated,
including Why Girls Say No (1927), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Jewish Prudence (1927), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Don’t Tell Everything (1927), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Call of the Cuckoo (1927), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Flaming Fathers (1927), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Pass the Gravy (1928), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Dumb Daddies (1928), black & white, 15 minutes, not rated, Came the Dawn (1928), color-tinted black & white, 17 minutes, not rated, The Boy Friend (1928), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Hurdy Gurdy (1929), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, and The Itching Hour (1931), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated.
Edition Filmmuseum, 58, unknown UPC/EAN number.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, optional German language subtitles; chapter stops; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; €29,95 (reduced to €25,17).
Release date: February 2011.
Country of origin: Germany
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