The 11th film on the new Mack Sennett blu ray collection

Edit The Examiner 05 Sep 2014
“The Great Toe Mystery”. Director unknown. Cast. Charles Parrott (Charley Chase), Alice Howell, Rube Miller, and Harry McCoy. Released July 25, 1914. Running Time 10.51 ... In the interim he would act, write, and direct at several studios ... “The Great Toe Mystery” was made shortly after director Henry Lehrman left Keystone to form his own comedy company, and he took top Keystone comedian Ford Sterling with him. This left a real gap ... ....

The 8th film on the new Mack Sennett blu ray collection

Edit The Examiner 01 Sep 2014
“A Fishy Affair”. Directed by Mack Sennett. Cast. Ford Sterling, Laura Oakley, Bert Hunn, Bill Hauber, Nick Cogley, and Dot Farley. Released April 24, 1913. Running time. 7 minutes ... Mack Sennett’s direction is so impressive, one wonders if perhaps he learned a bit from watching Henry Lehrman’s footage ... Lehrman used different angles to enhance the visual effect ... Lehrman has set that foundation in his own Keystone work ... ....

The 7th film on the new Mack Sennett blu ray collection

Edit The Examiner 31 Aug 2014
Directed by Henry Lehrman ... “Bangville Police” is also the first example on the Mack Sennett collection of a film directed by Henry Lehrman, an important Keystone filmmaker. Lehrman took Sennett’s basic structure of a conflict, a chase, and a happy conclusion and expanded upon it with his own sense of comic rhythm ... Lehrman times out the laughs so that the viewer has little time to rest before something else funny occurs....

Happy 100th Career Anniversary To Charlie Chaplin

Edit Huffington Post 03 Feb 2014
On Feb ... The film, which today has a rating of 5.9 out of 10 on IMDB, was sabotaged by its own director, Henry Lehrman, who cut out Chaplin's best scenes after deciding that he did not like the new actor. Chaplin and Lehrman quickly resolved their disagreements and created two more short films within the week (the production timeline from conception to reveal was exceptionally short in Chaplin's early days) ... It was a hit ... Charlie Chaplin....
×