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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "tramp" (22)

The Existential Menace

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Easy Street

Charles Chaplin (director/lead/writer)
William C. Foster (cinematographer)
Roland Totheroh (cinematographer)
Vincent Bryan (writer)
Maverick Terrell (writer)
Eric Campbell (lead)
Edna Purviance (lead)
Lloyd Bacon (lead)
Albert Austin (lead)
Charlotte Mineau (lead)
Leo White (lead)
James T. Kelley (lead)
John Rand (lead)
Mutual (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1917
Minutes: 23

With so many hilarious gags (and some are just small movements), that come at you so rapidly, repeat viewings is a must.

Featured elements:

: addiction; baptism of fire; bookends; chase; comedy; crazy cops; dark comedy; drunken warrior; family; fighting; heroic defender; poverty; redemption; religion; slapstick; smack attack; strongman; tramp; zero to hero

Out West

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead/writer)
George Peters (cinematographer)
Natalie Talmadge (writer)
Al St. John (lead)
Buster Keaton (lead)
Alice Lake (lead)
Joe Keaton (lead)
Comique (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1918
Minutes: 20

A parody of the conventions of Wild West movies - clearly a slapdash attempt to capitalize on the box-office success of 1974's Blazing Saddles.

Featured elements:

: action; animal act; antihero; comedy; cowboys; dark comedy; death scene; ethnic stereotype; forsaken; gambling; parody; redemption; rescue; slapstick; torture; train; tramp; unstoppable menace; white savior; white supremacy; zero to hero

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