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The
Charley Chase
Collection
(1924-1926)

Contents: All Wet (1924), April Fool (1924), Mum’s the Word (1926), Long Fliv the King (1926), Mighty Like a Moose (1926) and Crazy Like a Fox (1926).

Kino on Video
2004 DVD edition

The Charley Chase Collection (1924-1926), black & white, 121 minutes total, not rated, including All Wet (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, April Fool (1924), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Mum’s the Word (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Long Fliv the King (1926), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Mighty Like a Moose (1926), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, and Crazy Like a Fox (1926), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K368, UPC 0-38329-03682-9.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.6 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95 (reduced to $24.95).
Release date: 3 August 2004.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 9 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This DVD collection of Charley Chase short comedies was originally produced for home video by Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg of Lobster Films, Paris, from 35mm source prints that range in quality from very-good to excellent.

The film are accompanied by music scores composed and performed on piano by Neil Brand.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films, see our April Fool on home video and Mighty Like a Moose on home video pages.

We recommend this home video collection of Chase films.

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