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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
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Director:
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Harry Edwards |
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Starring:
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Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford |
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Country:
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U.S. |
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Genres:
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Comedy, Silent, Slapstick |
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Type:
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Tinted B&W
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Year:
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1924
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Language:
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English intertitles
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Length:
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84 mins.
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| Synopsis |
Wonderfully encapsulating the wit and charm of the silent cinema's childlike clown, Harry Langdon's Tramp, Tramp. Tramp blends outrageous slapstick with romantic sentiment to recall the forgotten pleasures of a more innocent age.
In an effort to save the family business, a shoemaker's son (Langdon) enters a cross-country race with hopes of walking away with the $25,000 prize -- never bothering to note that the race is staged to publicize the huge footwear corporation that is crushing his father's livelihood. During the course of his westward hike, Harry woos the corporate boss's daughter (a young and fetching Joan Crawford), is thrown in a chain gang, and is dangled from the edge of a cliff (in a scene that rivals Harold Lloyd's clockface escape in Safety Last). Before the finish line can be reached, Harry is caught in a violent tornado that devastates an entire town -- a sequence of spectacular comedy and destruction that no doubt inspired the hurricane finale of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr.
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| Critical Acclaim |
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"Langdon is unforgettable...an authentic figure from the golden age." -- David Robinson |
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