Max Davidson comedies / Leo McCarey.

"Max Davidson (1875-1950) is one of the numerous forgotten Hollywood supporting actors who acted in innumerable movies. His heyday was in the late 1920s when he was engaged at the Hal Roach Studios for a series of Jewish comedies which belong to the best and funniest shorts the studio ever produced....

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Edition Filmmuseum (Series) ; 58.
Corporate Authors: Hal Roach Studios
Larry Darmour Productions (Firm)
Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)
Film & kunst GmbH
Münchner Stadtmuseum. Abteilung Film
Other Authors: Davidson, Max, 1875-1950
McCarey, Leo
Bruckman, Clyde, 1894-1955
Guiol, Fred, 1898-1964
Yates, Hal
Heath, Arch B., 1891-1945
Roach, Hal, 1892-1992
Foster, Lewis R., 1898-1974
O'Donnell, Spec, 1911-
Sleeper, Martha
De Vorska, Jesse
Elliott, Lillian, 1875-1959
Morgan, Gene, 1892-1940
Barenz, Joachim
Roderburg, Christian, 1954-
Buchwald, Günter A.
Horne, Stephen
Language:English
German
Language and/or Writing System:
Chiefly silent films with musical accompaniment and English intertitles; optional subtitles in German.
Published: [München] : Edition Filmmuseum : Film & Kunst, [2011], ©2011.
Series:Edition Filmmuseum (Series) ; 58.
Subjects:
Jewish families > Drama.
Jews in motion pictures.
Comedy films.
Silent films.
Short films.
Genre:
Drama.
Comedy films.
Silent films.
Short films.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (257 min.) : sound, black and white and tinted black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Variant Title:
Leo McCarey : Max Davidson comedies.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"Max Davidson (1875-1950) is one of the numerous forgotten Hollywood supporting actors who acted in innumerable movies. His heyday was in the late 1920s when he was engaged at the Hal Roach Studios for a series of Jewish comedies which belong to the best and funniest shorts the studio ever produced. This 2-disc DVD set presents all the existing comedies as well as Davidson's first sound film and documentation of the lost films with rare scripts and more than 300 unpublished stills. All films focus on Davidson as the henpecked Jewish family father who has to struggle with his good-for-nothing son(s) and a daughter who falls in love with a non-Jewish boy."--Container.
Note:Originally released as motion pictures 1927-1931.
New scores by Joachim Bärenz, Christian Roderburg, Günter A. Buchwald, and Stephen Horne.
"Eine Präsentation der Film & Kunst GmbH in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Filmmuseum München"--Container.
Special DVD-ROM features include: essays, scripts, stills, reviews, and cutting continuities.
Accompanied by a booklet in German and English with essays by Stefan Drössler, Stewart Tryster, Richard W. Bann, and Steve Massa.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.J46 M38 2011 PAL VideoDVD
Credits:Directors, Leo McCarey, Clyde Bruckman, Fred Guiol, Hal Yates, Arch Heath, Hal Roach, Lewis R. Foster ; producers, Hal Roach Studios, Larry Darmour Productions ; writers, Leo McCarey, Hal Roach, Stan Laurel, Edgar Vincent Durling, Frank Gay ; cinematographers, Frank Young, Len Powers, Floyd Jackman, George Stevens.
System Details:DVD (all-region, PAL format): Not compatible with some American DVD players or NTSC-only systems.
Participant or Performer:
Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell, Martha Sleeper, Jesse De Vorska, Lillian Elliott, Gene Morgan.