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		List Price: $39.95		Label: FACETS Salesrank: 55424 Released: December 26, 2007
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Discovered in 1923 by slapstick pioneer Mack Sennett, Harry Langdon quickly rose to the ranks of the other silent comedians, rivaling Chaplin, Lloyd, and Keaton in popularity. Langdon s comic persona of the wide-eyed innocent bewildered by the world around him was developed in such classic shorts as Picking Peaches and His New Mamma, which have been restored and included in this four-disc set.
LOST AND FOUND contains most of Langdon s seminal work for Sennett s studio, including Smile Please, The First 100 Years, and The Hansom Cabman. Digitally re-mastered from original negatives and archival preservation material, this essential collection also features restorations of several lost films. Each film is accompanied by an original musical score. The set includes audio commentaries by silent-film historians, rare clips, and Lost and Found, a documentary covering Langdon's career. Sennett considered Harry Langdon the best comedian he'd ever seen, and this remarkable four-disc set shows us why.
Disc One: Picking Peaches, Smile Please, His New Mamma, The First 100 Years, The Luck o' the Foolish, The Hansom Cabman, and All Night Long
Disc Two: Feet of Mud, The Sea Squawk, Boobs in the Wood, His Marriage Wow, Plain Clothes, Remember When, Lucky Stars, and There He Goes surviving extract.
Disc Three: Saturday Afternoon, Fiddlesticks, Soldier Man, and His First Flame. Plus Bonus extra: Catalina Here I Come, a sample of faux-Langdon starring Eddie Quillan and Madeline Hurlock.

Disc Four: Knight Duty, Hooks and Jabs, and Love, Honor and Obey (the Law). Plus bonus extra: Lost and Found, an original feature-length documentary on the life and films of Harry Langdon.
Special Features: Lost and Found, a feature-length documentary, Audio Commentaries by Film Historians, Home Movies, and Facets Cine-Notes collectible booklet, Home Movies, Beautiful Clothes Make Beautiful Girls talkie from 1942, HEART TROUBLE press book

Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection Reviews:
typical shoddy Sennett
2009-02-11 - Nothing about Langdon's individuality can save these films from being typical low-budget, slipshod Sennett productions. The accompanying scores are dreadful and just make viewing that much more of a chore. I'm beginning to think that 'The Strong Man' was the aberration - the more I see of Langdon the less I feel he deserves any sense of equality with Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd. I applaud Allday for creating this set so that all can judge Langdon for themselves - but if you're listening at Allday, please give me something less avant-garde musically on your next silent project.

Harry Was A Genius and This DVD is Wonderful!
2009-01-10 - I am so glad that Kino has put this DVD together! Most of the short films on this DVD were presumed lost for decades, so not only are we talking great comedy but also historical significance. I have not received this collection yet, but I know it will be great. Baby Faced Harry was never given his due as one of the truly great silent film comics. For my money, his ability at pantomime was unequaled, and he was able to evoke pathos simply with a gesture of his hands or a movement of his eyes. Sadly, Harry died penniless in 1944 as a second tier performer in B comedies, his early triumphs in the 1920s virtually forgotten. But retribution is finally attained! Here we have him in his natural element: silent film, which he mastered beyond the skills of any of his peers. Harry was a great little guy with an enormous ability to make people laugh! Hopefully, this DVD will reintroduce this comic genius to the masses and restore his rightful legacy of greatness.

A must for silent film buffs. A cornucopia of rare, valuable and educational films by an underrated icon of the silent cinema
2008-10-26 - Harry langdon, to say the least, an underrated silent film star like Harold Lloyd had been, is thrown into present-day classic film afficionados through a number of films long lost and just revived.

Prior to this product's availability, I had understood only by the book that Langdon was a contemporary of Chaplin and Keaton who neared these legendary stars in popularity and I could see myself what I had heard of him was absolutely true after enjoying this DVD set.

Langdon, in every movie included, plays an adorable childish and naive persona.

Each disc is filled with valuable shots and some interesting audio content that in my opinion perfectly serve as an educational materials for classic movie buffs.

On the other hand,I must confess that audio commentaries provided by film experts have poor audio quality resulting in my failure to learn facts and tips(This is principally why I only give 4 stars to evaluate.)

This box also includes some talkies as well and they themselves demonstrate Langdon's competence as a talking actor.



GREAT SILENT COMEDY PACKAGE!
2008-09-08 - For anyone who loves silent films & comedy, sound or silent, must see this package. It is so sad how a star of this magnitude is overlooked & cut very short. Langdon is this example. Even Harold Lloyd tried helping his career, so he had some great pals helping him.In the DVD it is said that Chaplin had one star that intimidated him;it was Langdon. That's how strong a star he was.
For Langdson afficionados, I was impressed of films I've tried to see for 40 years but was never recovered, here in this package INCLUDING an 'infomercial' for GOODRICH tires that was never put in his filmography till now. The commentaries were excellent,except for one who got so technical about film stock that it was boring(HIS FIRST FLAME).
At least his son, Harry Langdon, the famous LA photographer is doing well. Too bad that they didn't interview for this package BUT highly recommended for ANY comedy fans to check the evolution of great comedians. Thanks Harry!!!

Give Harry another try here
2008-07-07 - Like many other silent comedy-fans, I was introduced to Harry Langdon through the compilations of Robert Youngson. Of the numerous gifted clowns presented there, Harry was the one that captivated me the most (yes, more than Buster Keaton, and I knew Chaplin from before). I adored his character for all its odd traits.

Although my admiration for Keaton grew fast and I quickly regarded him as Chaplin's one true rival, I did not forget Harry and the passion he had evoked in me. However, when I finally got to see his features, I had to pardon myself for being slightly disappointed. The gags felt far and between and were, I thought, usually performed without the sparkle of other talents. Rather, the insecurity which I had sensed in Harry's character and loved him for, I did now suspect to be largely the result of a lasting insecurity in Langdon the performer. While I still enjoyed him in excerpts, he became hard to watch for longer periods.

Do you recognize yourself a bit here? If yes, I guess you belong to the category of people who have more or less given Harry up by now and consider him to be completely overrated. Then, my friend, I am afraid that you have, as I did, missed the whole point. Not unlike when I watched W.C. Fields for the first time, what Harry did not give me was, in fact, what I failed to recognize. Fields was ahead of his time; Langdon did not even belong to any, and is timeless because of it.

IMPORTANT: watch each film in this set chronologically (excluding the extras). I guarantee you; you'll quickly realize that the insecurity of Harry has its outspring from an overwhelming personal SECURITY in Langdon. Take his first film, PICKING PEACHES (1924): here, he appears like any other clown, milking gags in traditional manner. A few films later, however, he has developed his character, with all its strange, childlike habits, such as walking one way just to change direction, and then change direction AGAIN. Only a really secure performer could ever achieve such insecurity so spontainely. Oh yes, he could do otherwise, as early appearances confirm, but this is how he chose to do it. His character is not so often funny for what he does as for the very fact that it is HE who does it; a gag which would seem incredibly weak and stupid in the hands of Chaplin gets hysterical with Harry.

Because I was fortunate enough to realize all this quickly, not ONCE throughout the viewing did I get back the uneasy feeling of the old days. My top favorites in the set got to be THE FIRST 100 YEARS, THE HANSOM CABMAN, ALL NIGHT LONG, [...] IN THE WOOD, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SOLDIER MAN and the feature HIS FIRST FLAME (which I previously didn't like), but all are enjoyable and the documentary is a treat. Harry Langdon was, plain and simple, a unique comic genius in his very unique way. Long live his work.