Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 1pm - 3pm
Details
With live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton
AFI’s Silent Cinema Showcase returns with another selection of newly restored screen classics and rare gems from the silent era.
100th Anniversary
WHY WORRY? (1923) in 35mm
Seeking a cure for his multitude of mostly imaginary ailments, wealthy hypochondriac Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) takes a tropical vacation to the South American island of "Paradiso." There, rather than the rest and relaxation he was expecting, he finds himself in the middle of a political revolution, winds up in jail and joins forces with the amiable giant Colosso (the towering John Aasen, who was cast through a nationwide search for an actor of proper stature) to try to quell the unrest. The last of the features Harold Lloyd made with producer Hal Roach, WHY WORRY? succeeds as both a wildly inventive slapstick showcase and an almost surreal satire of American interventionism. (Note adapted from Criterion Channel.) DIR Fred C. Newmeyer, DIR/SCR Sam Taylor; PROD Hal Roach. U.S., 1923, b&w, 63 min. NOT RATED. Please be advised that this film contains offensive racial stereotypes.
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100th Anniversary
DOGS OF WAR! (1923)
In this installment in the OUR GANG series featuring Hal Roach's Rascals, the gang is embroiled in an elaborate war game against a rival group of kids — primarily fought with rotten vegetables — on the streets outside West Coast Studios. A truce is called when child actress Mary is summoned inside to go to work on set. Intrigued, the rest of the gang sneaks inside, and they are soon chased across the lot by security. Eventually the kids get helped out of this jam by comedy star Harold Lloyd and his leading lady Jobyna Ralston, both playing themselves. DIR Robert F. McGowan; SCR/PROD Hal Roach; SCR H. M. Walker. U.S., 1923, b&w, 24 min. NOT RATED
