Image of the day, 7/23/11

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• Oliver_C says:

  July 23, 2011 at 11:20 am

  “The Unholy Three”? And a guy in a gorilla suit?
  Aha, so *that’s* where Marvel Comics got the idea…
  http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=768597&gsub=27878

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• David Ehrenstein says:

  July 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm

  I’ve seen it and it’s quite good.

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• Kiss Me, Son of God says:

  July 23, 2011 at 4:18 pm

  Hey, it’s Bryan Cranston!

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• Shawn Stone says:

  July 23, 2011 at 5:24 pm

  “I don’t trust that midge!”
  On the whole, the deep malice of the Browning version (1925) gets swapped out for something more superficial, but there’s nothing superficial about Chaney’s commitment.

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• Glenn Kenny says:

  July 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm

  It’s true, this is dime-store stuff next to the original, but still, so much to love: Chaney, Lila, Harry Earles saying “Pretty beads, pretty beads,” and so on. My favorite thing about this shot in its non-still version is the casual, unconscious surrealism it achieves; these two characters fretting over their “relationship” outside their cabin in the woods while a gorilla jumps around behind them.

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• AeC says:

  July 23, 2011 at 11:45 pm

  I saw the original at Film Forum’s Tod Browning retrospective a couple years ago, which simultaneously showed me just how more twisted Browning could get than Dracula and Freaks and made me a lifelong Chaney, Sr. fan. This one’s been sitting on my shelf for a while after I picked up a Chaney six-pack from Warner Archive a few months back. It just moved closer to the head of the “To Watch” list.

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• haice says:

  July 24, 2011 at 12:19 am

  Laurel & Hardy fled the circus around that same time with the estimable Charles Gemora as “Ethel” in THE CHIMP. Hilarious scene with the three of them in a motel room as L & H plot to ditch the monkey.

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