Author James L. Neibaur

The Roaring Twenties opens with three men on the battlefield during World War I.  James Cagney is Eddie Bartlett, a working-class type doing his best in challenging circumstances.  Humphrey Bogart is George Hal...

Safety Last! is likely the quintessential Harold Lloyd film, the one that seems to define his entire career, and the one that identifies him as chiefly a daredevil comedian.  The iconic image of Lloyd dangling ...

In 1946, when the hot new comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis burst onto the New York nightclub scene, their outrageous irreverence was just the sort of excitement weary post-war American audiences crave...

In Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928) Buster Keaton, for his final independently produced feature, enjoyed a level of complete creative control (with no budgetary restrictions) afforded only a select f...

Syd Chaplin is often dismissively referred to as Charlie's half-brother, or given some marginal attention for having helped secure Charlie Chaplin's high paying contracts during the late teens.  In fact, Syd ha...

American films of the 1940s were far different from their predecessors of the 1920s and 1930s. Brash upstart comics from radio and vaudeville who found their forte in rat-a-tat verbal routines replaced the crea...

The survival rate of films made before 1950 is at such a low percentage that any effort to locate and restore our cinematic heritage is commendable. Thus, the new three-disc DVD set from Flicker Alley, Saved Fr...

b. 16 April 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK d. 25 December 1977, Vevey, Switzerland Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources When one views Kid Auto Races at Venice, a 19...

A Woman of Paris (1923 USA 93 mins) Prod, Dir, Scr: Charles Chaplin Phot: Roland Totheroh Ed: Monta Bell Art Dir: Arthur Stibolt Cast: Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles Fre...

The Bellboy (1960 USA 71 mins) Prod Co: Jerry Lewis Pictures/Paramount Prod, Dir, Scr: Jerry Lewis Phot: Haskell B. Boggs Ed: Stanley E. Johnson Art Dir: Henry Bumstead, Hal Pereira Mus: Walter Scharf ...

Joseph Francis “Buster” Keaton is one of those filmmakers whose work made such an enormous impact on screen comedy, every aspect of his cinematic contribution is worth examining. His first silent films as appre...

In the 6 January 1920 issue of Exhibitor’s Trade Review, screen actress Olive Thomas gleefully announced during an interview that she had a movie projector in her home where she would run some of the latest mov...