Pulau 2023 Full Movie
Pulau 2023
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00:00:14 In 1900, when these films were made along New York's 5th Avenue,
00:00:18 two newly born inventions were just beginning to shape and expand our lives.
00:00:23 The automobile and the motion picture.
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00:00:33 We are traveling up turn-of-the-century Broadway,
00:00:36 a street already world famous for its swank restaurants,
00:00:39 legitimate theaters, and electric lights.
00:00:43 The first movie houses were not to be found here, but on the side streets.
00:00:47 The lowly Nickelodeon catered to the common man,
00:00:50 and from the beginning, comedy was king.
00:00:54 As one showman pointed out, "You can get an onion to make you cry,
00:00:58 but nobody has discovered a vegetable to make you laugh."
00:01:02 Films had to be hand-cranked by the weary projectionist.
00:01:06 In this early French comedy, someone steals into the Paris Conservatory
00:01:11 and makes the great master clock run fast,
00:01:13 which speeds up time everywhere in the city.
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00:03:22 What a difference two decades made.
00:03:24 This is Fifth Avenue in the 1920s.
00:03:27 The automobile had driven the horse from the streets to the racetrack.
00:03:32 And this is Broadway in evolution through the roaring '20s,
00:03:36 as it might have been viewed if we were riding H.G. Wells' time machine.
00:03:40 It's 1920. Marion Davies is playing at the Globe.
00:03:45 Stage attractions still dominate the Great White Way,
00:03:48 like Cinderella on Broadway at the Winter Garden.
00:03:51 1921, midnight photo plays and Chalmers underwear.
00:03:57 1923, the cast of the Ziegfeld Follies includes Fanny Bryce,
00:04:01 Bert Wheeler, and Paul Whiteman.
00:04:04 In 1924, Broadway offers on stage the Marx Brothers,
00:04:09 Fred Astaire, and Will Rogers.
00:04:12 1925, on screen, Lon Chaney is in The Phantom of the Opera.
00:04:18 In 1926, Mae West makes headlines when her show is closed and she is sentenced to jail.
00:04:25 The moving sign above the Capitol Theater in the distance
00:04:28 proclaims Eric Von Stroheim's production, The Merry Widow,
00:04:31 starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert.
00:04:35 At the Astor, the big parade is in its second year.
00:04:42 As 1926 ends, Beauget, starring Ronald Coleman, is at the Criterion.
00:04:48 In 1927, the Criterion features old Ironsides with Wallace Beery and Charles Farrell.
00:04:55 Also in 1927, signs for the Student Prince
00:04:58 and for Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings light up the Broadway sky.
00:05:06 1928, white shadows in the South Seas,
00:05:10 lost in the Arctic,
00:05:12 and a contest to find new kids for Our Gang comedies.
00:05:16 1929, silent films and the prosperous '20s bow out together.
00:05:22 The lights of Broadway take on a special glow
00:05:24 before the Depression dims them and World War II blacks them out.
00:05:29 The sign for the part-talkie Noah's Ark combines electric bulbs and clouds of steam
00:05:34 in a display stretching almost a block.
00:05:40 Movie theaters had progressed from shabby Nickelodeon to shining palace.
00:05:45 The old hand-cranked projectionist was only a memory.
00:05:50 Through these early movie years, Oliver Hardy, first of our four clowns,
00:05:55 played a part in the growth of silent comedy from rough beginnings
00:05:58 to what many today consider a lost art.
00:06:02 Here he supports Billy West, whose impersonation of Charlie Chaplin was so exact, it was uncanny.
00:06:10 The girl is Leatrice Joy.
00:06:15 Enter a sissy.
00:06:17 He's Billy Quirk, a film comedy pioneer, once leading man to Mary Pickford.
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00:07:11 Oliver falls for Leatrice and invites her to the barber's ball,
00:07:15 where trouble develops at once and Billy West proves that when his body's in action,
00:07:20 it's almost impossible to tell him apart from Charlie Chaplin's little tramp.
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00:07:32 The police arrive. They're looking for a Bay Rum addict with a mustache.
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00:08:02 In the hobo, Charlie--I mean Billy--has just collected a big reward.
00:08:15 It looks like he's also won the girl from young Oliver Hardy, here minus mustache.
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00:08:29 As every moviegoer of 1917 expected, the romantic tables are turned
00:08:42 so that Billy can give us a typical Charlie Chaplin pathos ending.
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00:08:54 Ten years later in No Man's Law, an offbeat Hal Roach western of 1927,
00:09:12 Oliver Hardy plays the grubby villain Sharky Nye.
00:09:16 The girl he's leering at is lovely Barbara Kent.
00:09:20 The other prong of this triangle is the girl's guardian stallion, Rex the Wonder Horse.
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00:09:28 Running through the woods, Barbara Kent will remind some moviegoers of Hedy Lamarr in Ecstasy,
00:09:34 made a decade after this.
00:09:36 But don't be concerned. Barbara's wearing a flesh-colored bathing suit.
00:09:40 This is still a family picture.
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00:10:26 [horse neighing]
00:10:28 Barbara orders Rex to let Hardy alone. She shouldn't have.
00:10:33 After a few kicks for good measure, the sensitive stallion retires to the upper ridges,
00:10:39 leaving unprotected our waif of the wasteland.
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00:11:51 Hardy wants to play house. Rex is determined there'll be no house left to play in.
00:11:58 This kind of thing could be hard on a villain's nerves.
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00:12:21 Hardy retreats. Rex forecloses the mortgage.
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00:12:56 The second of our four clowns is Stan Laurel.
00:13:06 Before teaming with Oliver Hardy and perfecting the character of Oliver's beloved dim-witted friend,
00:13:12 Stan often played brash go-getters like this patent medicine salesman and bird impersonator.
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00:14:07 On a corner nearby, Happy Harry, yesterday's playboy in need of refreshment.
00:14:15 Watch those elevator shoes.
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00:14:21 Harry is beset by a government agent in this bygone age of prohibition.
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00:14:34 [snoring]
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00:15:01 The warden discovers he has visitors in the carpet.
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00:15:10 It's worse than mice or moths. It's tunneling convict Oliver Hardy.
00:15:15 And his burrowing cellmate, Stan Laurel.
00:15:21 This cow-roach comedy, The Second Hundred Years, was the first official Laurel and Hardy release.
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00:15:34 The masterful Oliver Hardy, signs mean nothing.
00:15:59 He demonstrates that to be a successful Christmas tree salesman in sunny California,
00:16:04 you have to be both persistent and hard-headed.
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00:16:30 Mistaken for visiting royalty, Laurel and Hardy register in style.
00:16:37 Actually, Stanley and Oliver, who were always starting new jobs,
00:16:41 are reporting as doormen from the bottom of the labor barrel.
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00:17:28 Quickly reduced to their proper station, Stan and Ollie become involved in a monetary crisis.
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00:17:54 Oliver Hardy versus the law.
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00:18:36 Oliver has a terrible time getting skittish Scotch nephew Stanley fitted for a pair of pants.
00:18:44 Really?
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00:20:12 Oliver vows he'll get those measurements no matter what the consequences.
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00:20:38 The consequences.
00:20:41 Betrayed.
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00:21:24 Laurel and Hardy, two cars on shore leave and shipwreck.
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00:21:52 The gum machine won't work. Neither will Thelma and Ruby.
00:22:04 Demure damsels in distress always bring out the devil may care romantic side of Stanley and Oliver.
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00:23:34 "Pick them up," says Stanley. "Put them in here."
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00:23:41 Enter shopkeeper Charlie Hall, Laurel and Hardy's eternal opponent.
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00:24:11 "Just cleaning things up," explains Oliver.
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00:24:30 Thelma commands, "Go help your shipmate."
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00:25:52 This 1928 Hal Roach comedy, Their Purple Moment,
00:25:57 was dedicated to husbands who hold out part of their pay envelope on their wives
00:26:02 and live to tell about it.
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00:26:07 Stanley hides his loot in a portrait of Uncle Sneed,
00:26:11 a natural place to store money.
00:26:13 Because he couldn't take it with him, Uncle Sneed wouldn't go.
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00:26:23 Guests arrive. Friend Oliver and Mrs. Hardy.
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00:26:46 Mrs. Laurel replaces Stan's money with cigar coupons,
00:26:50 the trading stamps of their day.
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00:26:55 Hardy's wife is a bloodhound.
00:27:11 The most money he gets to keep is five cents car fare,
00:27:14 and he has to show the transfer.
00:27:16 But Laurel explains he's a weasel with a hiding place even a wife couldn't find.
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00:27:25 Oliver, the financial advisor, has one-way pockets marked out.
00:27:31 Naturally, he knows just the way to spend Stanley's savings.
00:27:35 The town gossip.
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00:27:47 Fine day for mischief, observes Mrs. Fish-Eye.
00:27:52 Let's go, says Oliver.
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00:28:14 Two guys who couldn't pay the bill are expelled from Eden,
00:28:23 the Cafe Eden, that is.
00:28:25 They're followed by the girlfriends they left with a check,
00:28:28 Kay DeLis and Anita Garvin, a pair of roving debutantes.
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00:28:40 Oliver solves it all.
00:29:04 They'll assume responsibility.
00:29:06 The age of chivalry lives on, down to the last dollar Stanley thinks he has.
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00:30:26 Cigar coupons.
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00:30:44 Put it on the check, says Stanley.
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00:31:12 A taxi driver joins the party.
00:31:15 The girls, who believe in instant transportation,
00:31:18 left him outside with a clock running.
00:31:21 In 1928, there wasn't a man living who could lift the stuff you could buy
00:31:26 with the amount on that meter.
00:31:28 "Sit down, have a steak," says Good Time Oliver.
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00:32:05 Oliver suggests a fast exit, the tippy-toe route.
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00:32:59 [applause]
00:33:07 "Wait till this number's over," requests Hardy.
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00:33:37 From a nightmare to grim reality,
00:33:43 from a skirmish to Armageddon,
00:33:45 here come the wise.
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00:33:54 The headwaiter, played by Tiny Sanford, is back.
00:34:00 This time he'll either see green or red.
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00:34:57 At this moment of crisis, Oliver announces he has an idea.
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00:35:12 "Tell them your idea, Ollie," says Stanley.
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00:35:18 "We were heading for the bowling alley," explains Oliver,
00:35:21 "when Stanley dragged me to this den of vice."
00:35:24 No one has replaced Laurel and Hardy,
00:35:28 just as no one has replaced Chaplin or Keaton or Fields.
00:35:32 Good comedians have many imitators.
00:35:35 The great clowns stand alone.
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00:37:08 Our third clown is Charlie Chase,
00:37:14 the original good-time Charlie whose elk's tooth had a cavity.
00:37:18 Lindbergh had just flown the Atlantic.
00:37:21 Lucky Lindy referred to himself and his plane as "we,"
00:37:25 and the term became a household word.
00:37:28 So Charlie made a comedy called "Us,"
00:37:31 in which he tried to get up courage to take his first flight.
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00:37:37 Says the little old lady, "It's great.
00:37:50 Tomorrow I'll try wing walking."
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00:38:11 Says Mother, "Flying soothes her better than a cradle."
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00:39:00 Says Granddad, "It sure beats goat land."
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00:39:07 Charlie cries, "Nothing can stop me this time."
00:39:14 Made in 1927, this film is a memento of a time not so long ago
00:39:19 when dusty cow pastures were transformed into airports.
00:39:23 Planes were made of piano wire, canvas, and plywood,
00:39:27 and a five-minute flight was one of life's great adventures.
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00:39:42 "No refunds!" yells the one-man ground crew.
00:39:50 "Get in there and fly!
00:39:52 We've got customers waiting for that coat."
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00:40:34 Another daring rescue ruined by lack of danger.
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00:40:46 The girl he thought he saved is an aviatrix,
00:40:49 and Charlie's going up at last.
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00:42:18 Charlie Chase's life was one long, embarrassing moment.
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00:42:52 In "What Price Goofy," takeoff on the title of the then-current stage hit,
00:43:00 "What Price Glory," Charlie has been asked to put up a certain Professor Boggs as house guest.
00:43:05 He has no idea Professor Boggs is a beautiful woman with Mae Murray-type, bee-stung lips.
00:43:12 Another visitor, Noah Young, a burglar so busy his crowbar is suffering from mental fatigue.
00:43:20 Butler Lucian Littlefield announces the professors in the guest room upstairs.
00:43:25 Unsuspecting Charlie, who thinks all professors are old fogies, decides it's time to dress for dinner.
00:43:32 En route home, Charlie's wife.
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00:45:19 Mrs. Chase arrives. Her sunny disposition resembles that of a hyena with a sore nose.
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00:45:28 Charlie admits the little woman. While she's accusing him of stepping out, Noah's stepping in.
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00:45:39 Chase calls the professor to dinner.
00:45:45 In his cow roach comedies, poor Charlie was always innocent, but he got caught anyway.
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00:45:53 Buddy the terrier is such a bad watchdog, he won't even watch.
00:45:57 Hungry for culture, Noah stole a cap and gown before tackling the silverware.
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00:46:04 The professor misinterprets Charlie's pleading for silence as some kind of attack.
00:46:09 Help!
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00:46:12 Help!
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00:46:16 Help!
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00:46:21 Who, me? I'm just taking out the laundry.
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00:46:45 In Fluttering Hearts, Charlie Chase makes a clothes store dummy come alive.
00:46:59 Oliver Hardy is the tipsy victim who couldn't and shouldn't believe his eyes.
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00:48:45 The bugs are bad this year, observes Oliver.
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00:48:55 On movie night, Charlie's daughter, played by Edith Fellows, comes down with a hiccups.
00:49:10 Old Medicine Man Charlie attempts to scare them away.
00:49:13 Boo!
00:49:14 [hiccup]
00:49:15 Boo!
00:49:20 [hiccup]
00:49:21 Boo!
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00:50:05 Darn hiccups, that means no movie tonight.
00:50:09 The cure is instantaneous.
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00:50:34 More hiccups.
00:50:35 Charlie, the good Samaritan, decides he'll use the same scare technique to cure the cashier too.
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00:50:56 In family group, Charlie, wife, and baby pose for a portrait.
00:51:01 Charlie's pea-shooting son is on the window seat.
00:51:04 The photographer is Edgar Kennedy.
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00:51:30 Without a balloon in the picture, Edgar's camera won't work.
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00:52:09 Nothing could stop Charlie Chase in his everlasting journey from bad to worse.
00:52:35 He buys all the balloons just in time for a California windstorm.
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00:53:04 "What's holding him up?" wonders Gertrude Astor as Charlie's wife.
00:53:08 "Look!"
00:53:09 "Goodness!" moans Mrs. Chase.
00:53:15 "This never would have happened if he'd eaten a heavy breakfast."
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00:54:07 Viola Richards' car runs wild in Limousine Love,
00:54:19 a Charlie Chase misadventure in depth.
00:54:22 Viola's unhurt, but her flaming youth got all damp.
00:54:29 She spots an empty limousine.
00:54:32 Cars of the '20s with shades and cut glass vases made perfect dressing rooms.
00:54:38 In today's models, you'd have a hard time dressing a midget.
00:54:46 Meanwhile, Charlie, the limousine's owner, discovers gas trucks don't sell retail.
00:54:52 There's adventure minus dressing ahead for Charlie,
00:54:56 a bridegroom-to-be already late for his wedding.
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00:55:19 Charlie discovers he had gasoline all the time.
00:55:26 Remember when cars carried spare gas on their running boards?
00:55:30 Remember when cars had running boards?
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00:55:38 There go Viola's clothes, every stitch.
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00:55:53 Viola through the speaker.
00:56:04 Quick, catch my clothing, out the window. I'll explain later.
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00:56:29 That's all there is, there isn't anymore.
00:56:50 A bride at the church, a naked woman in the car,
00:56:54 and along hobbles Edgar Kennedy, the most persistent hitchhiker west of Upper Sandusky.
00:57:00 "You can have a lift," says Charlie, "but not in the back seat. Not in the back seat!"
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00:57:06 Charlie explains about his cargo in the rear, and Edgar smiles knowingly.
00:57:14 He belongs to that great fraternity of men who have been around a bit themselves.
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00:57:23 Up roars a cop looking for contraband booze, flooding the land in these days of prohibition.
00:57:30 Charlie has the guilty look of someone hauling bathtub gin.
00:57:34 "Pull over," orders the policeman.
00:57:38 The presence of an arm of authority quickly transforms experienced Edgar from passenger to innocent bystander.
00:57:49 "Okay, brother, let's see what's inside," commands the law.
00:57:53 "No, no," pleads poor Charlie.
00:57:55 "Yes, yes," says the cop.
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00:58:32 "It's all right, chum, I'm only looking for rum runners."
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00:58:36 "Bootleggers, they were everywhere."
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00:58:58 Edgar suggests they circle his hotel and he'll pick up some clothing.
00:59:02 But wouldn't you know it, Edgar's hotel is just the place they're holding Charlie's wedding.
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00:59:09 "I can't stop the car," yells Charlie.
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00:59:28 The best man volunteers.
00:59:32 "I'll stop it."
00:59:33 Charlie has to share his secret.
00:59:35 The males of the 20s were not as yet fully domesticated.
00:59:39 They stuck together.
00:59:40 "We can't stop, there's something wrong with her body."
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00:59:46 "Her motor's racing, she needs to be greased."
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00:59:58 "The case is hopeless, it's the naked truth."
01:00:07 "That's enough of that," says the father of the bride.
01:00:10 "I'll stop it."
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01:00:13 Now Charlie has to tell all to dear old dad.
01:00:24 "It happens to the best of us," says father.
01:00:26 "You should have seen what used to go on in my Stanley steamer."
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01:00:31 "There's no stopping her now, she's stripped."
01:00:39 When at 30, something's gumming up her wedding.
01:00:44 Never underestimate the power of a woman.
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01:00:51 The determined to be bride kills the switch.
01:01:01 "My, my," says Charlie.
01:01:04 "Now, why didn't we think of that?"
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01:01:09 "One, two, up!"
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01:01:53 "What's going on here?" asks the bride.
01:02:05 "Oh, this is our lodge ceremony," explains quick-thinking Charlie.
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01:03:11 "My goodness," cries Mother, "don't tell me you'd marry that leaping bedsheet."
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01:04:04 Off to his wedding goes Charlie Chase, man of the roaring twenties,
01:04:08 a simpler, happier, and long-vanished moment of time.
01:04:12 Our fourth clown is Buster Keaton.
01:04:16 He and friend J. Roy Barnes learned from lawyer Snits Edwards
01:04:20 that Buster is to inherit seven million dollars,
01:04:23 providing he is married by 7 p.m. on his 21st birthday.
01:04:29 And when is his 21st birthday?
01:04:32 That very day.
01:04:34 The long arm of coincidence often stretched out of its socket
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01:04:43 He's off to propose to Genevieve, his sweetheart since childhood.
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01:05:46 Buster's girl Genevieve is thrilled, at first.
01:06:02 But then he lets slip that business about 7 o'clock and seven million dollars,
01:06:07 and the climate changes.
01:06:09 She's afraid he wants to marry her for his money.
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01:06:45 Rejected by the girl he loves,
01:06:52 poor Buster decides it doesn't matter whom he marries.
01:06:55 He'll marry anyone who'll have him.
01:06:57 Even a golfette.
01:06:59 As long as it's before 7 o'clock.
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01:07:52 Prodded by friend and lawyer, Buster proposes on.
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01:08:52 Soothed by mother, Buster's girl writes him a note.
01:09:01 Translated from female into English, it reads, "Yes."
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01:09:09 Mary doesn't trust the phone.
01:09:16 Anyway, in those days, proper girls didn't call boys.
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01:09:21 So she sends her message by pony express.
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01:09:26 J. Roy Barnes has an idea.
01:09:32 "I'll get a bride," he says.
01:09:34 "Meet me at the Broad Street Church at 5."
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01:09:38 Too late.
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01:10:00 An acceptance at last.
01:10:15 Is this movie over?
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01:10:19 Too early.
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01:10:31 "Even if you play grown-up in my makeup and coat," says mother,
01:10:39 "you're still only 12."
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01:10:43 A proposal, wheel to wheel.
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01:11:25 Barnes' big idea.
01:11:28 Give the story to the newspaper.
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01:13:08 "There," says Barnes, "I've done it."
01:13:13 "That should flush out a bride or two."
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01:13:46 This comedy, "Seven Chances," was made in 1925.
01:13:57 Almost a half century later,
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01:14:01 and Reno
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01:17:48 The minister speaks. Ladies, may I please have your attention?
01:18:03 You're evidently the victims of some practical joker. I must ask you to leave the church as quickly and as quietly as possible.
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01:19:14 Buster gets the message. Genevieve is his. Nothing stands between our hero and happiness but time, space, and an unmarried mob.
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01:19:44 Keaton loses his watch. With that seven o'clock deadline looming ever nearer, he has to know the time.
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01:20:36 Upstairs, the life of somebody's party awakens to the morning after.
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01:20:43 Forty-five minutes left.
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01:22:45 Actions on the run. Bring the minister to Genevieve's house. I'll get there before seven if I can.
01:22:50 This film was directed, apparently at full gallop, by Buster Keaton himself.
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01:34:28 Married in the nick of time.
01:34:33 Eternal happiness.
01:34:35 Love. Wealth.
01:34:37 No worries.
01:34:38 Except keeping out of the way of a few thousand disappointed brides.
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01:35:27 Did you pick out 18-year-old Jean Harlow?
01:35:35 She was the woman who lost her dress in Laurel and Hardy's Double Whoopie.
01:35:39 She continued to play small roles in short features for two more years
01:35:43 for Howard Hughes' caster in Hell's Angels.
01:35:46 And finally, who was this guy, Charlie Chase?
01:35:49 Well, he was a very talented fellow from Baltimore, Maryland.
01:35:52 He starred in, produced, wrote, or directed an amazing 155 films
01:35:57 for HowlRote Studios, most of which were shorts.
01:36:00 And he also appeared with many of the top comedy stars of the day,
01:36:04 including Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy, of course.
01:36:07 In the late '30s, he directed some of the early Three Stooges pictures.
01:36:11 But success didn't make Charlie Chase very happy.
01:36:14 He was always a very heavy drinker, and he had an unhappy marriage,
01:36:18 and that made it a lot worse.
01:36:20 And he was just 46 years old when he died of a heart attack.
01:36:24 Now, I come from Baltimore, and he was one of our very big stars.
01:36:27 We were very proud of him.
01:36:29 He was a very talented man, and his name is remembered by movie buffs around the world.
01:36:33 Now watch this.
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