It was great. There's an extended take which is just a close-up of Langdon's face as he herky-jerkily falls asleep after having been stoned out of his mind on sleeping pills and booze and it's hilarious. The whole movie is like that. None of its timing is quite what you expect, except that the punch lines are all exactly where they need to be and the gags that don't have punch lines are just as funny. I really can't think of anything else quite like it in the 1920's. I'd love to know if it can be proven that he affected a next generation of comedians, given how briefly his popularity seems to have lasted and how little he seems to be known nowadays.
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That film sounds wonderfully ridiculous.
It was great. There's an extended take which is just a close-up of Langdon's face as he herky-jerkily falls asleep after having been stoned out of his mind on sleeping pills and booze and it's hilarious. The whole movie is like that. None of its timing is quite what you expect, except that the punch lines are all exactly where they need to be and the gags that don't have punch lines are just as funny. I really can't think of anything else quite like it in the 1920's. I'd love to know if it can be proven that he affected a next generation of comedians, given how briefly his popularity seems to have lasted and how little he seems to be known nowadays.