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IS IT JUST ME OR WAS THE SILENT ERA THE BEST FOR COMEDY?

hink of silent cinema and chances are a number of images will come to mind. Count Orlok’s shadow on the stairs in (1922), perhaps, or the cityscapes of Fritz Lang’s (1927). But sooner or later you’ll likely imagine a scene from one

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