Charley Chase Megapack Online

. His screen persona—a dapper, ordinary man in street clothes—faced escalating mishaps in domestic and professional settings. This "normality" made his comedy uniquely relatable and arguably the precursor to the modern sitcom.

“Finally. The missing link between silent slapstick and sitcom smooth-talk. Watch one Chase short and you’ll see the DNA of I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show .” –

For casual viewers who only know the mainstream silent clowns, the Charley Chase MegaPack is an eye-opening revelation. For dedicated classic Hollywood fans, it is a mandatory purchase. Charley Chase MegaPack

A bizarre cameo-stuffed short where Chase plays a detective looking for Norma Shearer’s missing pearls. The version includes a restored scene featuring Buster Keaton and Laurel & Hardy that was cut from most TV prints.

Widely considered one of the greatest silent comedies ever made, featuring a husband and wife who secretly get plastic surgery and inadvertently flirt with each other. “Finally

A classic "morning after" comedy. Chase wakes up late for his wedding. He must drive across town in his pajamas while a dead body keeps falling out of his car. It is frantic, high-speed, and brilliantly edited.

: Many modern releases include newly composed scores that breathe life into the silent footage. For dedicated classic Hollywood fans, it is a

Curiosity and the kind of courage that comes from knowing exactly how the projector whirred compelled him to thread the first reel. As the first cracked title card blinked into life, an apartment of moth-eaten curtains and the smell of old popcorn seemed to swell around him. The Crescent’s single bulb hummed, and for a moment Charley forgot the world had moved on from silent comedians and shuffling ushers.

In the late 1930s, Chase moved to Columbia Pictures, where he worked both in front of and behind the camera. The MegaPack preserves this final chapter of his career, during which he directed several classic short films for the Three Stooges (including Violent Is the Word for Curly ) while continuing to star in his own frantic comedies until his untimely death in 1940. The Anatomy of a Charley Chase Comedy