Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry.
If you’re the kind of person who finds the sheer physical disparity between a very tall man and a very short man inherently hilarious, you’ll probably get a kick out of Brotherly Love. If you’re looking for the kind of wit Jean Arthur became famous for a decade later, you’re going to be disappointed. This is a 1928 sil...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Charles Reisner
Richard Smith
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"If you’re the kind of person who finds the sheer physical disparity between a very tall man and a very short man inherently hilarious, you’ll probably get a kick out of Brotherly Love. If you’re looking for the kind of wit Jean Arthur became famous for a decade later, you’re going to be disappointed. This is a 1928 silent comedy that feels like it’s clinging to the last gasps of a specific type of slapstick right before sound changed everything. Is it worth watching today? Only if you’re a comp..."
Robert E. Hopkins, Patterson Margoni, Earl Baldwin, Lew Lipton
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