A series of six two-reel episodes, each individually titled: #1: Let's Go (1922); #2: Round Two (1922); #3: Payment Through the Nose (1922); #4: A Fool and His Honey (1922); #5: The Taming of the Shrewd (1922); #6: Whipsawed..

The first time I encountered The Leather Pushers I was hunting for toilet-stall graffiti inside a condemned Newark theater; instead I found a 35-mm tin labeled in grease-pencil hieroglyphs. One splice later, Reginald Denny’s jack-o’-lantern grin leapt at me like a newsboy demanding a nickel. Six two-reel episodes, si...

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Edward Laemmle

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" The first time I encountered The Leather Pushers I was hunting for toilet-stall graffiti inside a condemned Newark theater; instead I found a 35-mm tin labeled in grease-pencil hieroglyphs. One splice later, Reginald Denny’s jack-o’-lantern grin leapt at me like a newsboy demanding a nickel. Six two-reel episodes, six jabs to the solar plexus of propriety—yet each segment pirouettes on a dime from blood sport to bedroom farce, proving that in 1922 slapstick and slugfest shared the same pancrea..."
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