Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers..
The first time I caught The Fall Guy in a rep-house carbon-arc glow, I swear the projector itself chuckled. A 35-minute gauntlet of splintered timber and human pretzels, it lands like a moonshine flask hurled across a century-wide saloon. Larry Semon—rubber-limbed, porcelain-eyed—doesn’t merely act; he detonates. His...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Larry Semon
Larry Semon
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" The first time I caught The Fall Guy in a rep-house carbon-arc glow, I swear the projector itself chuckled. A 35-minute gauntlet of splintered timber and human pretzels, it lands like a moonshine flask hurled across a century-wide saloon. Larry Semon—rubber-limbed, porcelain-eyed—doesn’t merely act; he detonates. His feud with Gentleman Joe, a villain who dresses like a ballroom phantom and grins like a mortgage collector, becomes a physics lecture written in bruises. Watch how Semon weaponiz..."
William Hauber
Edward L. Moriarty, Larry Semon, Norman Taurog
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