Kit Parker Films announced this past week that the next round of funny man action from the legendary Charley Chase will be on Aug. 10 with the DVD release of Charley Chase: At Hal Roach: The Talkies Volume 3 – 1934-1936.
After co-starring with Laurel and Hardy in director William A. Seiter’s Christmas of 1933 comedy hit, Sons of the Desert, Chase did a series of theatrical comedy short films for Hal Roach beginning in January of 1934 and running through May of 1936, when the studio decided to exit the short film marketplace.
Kit Parker has assembled all 21 films from this two-and-a-half year run, beginning with The Cracked Iceman, co-starring Betty Mack, who would also co-star in the next five short comedies. Later in 1934, Dorothy Appleby would be his comedy foil for a couple of shorts, before Betty Mack reteamed with him for the Christmas season release of The Chases of Pimple Street.
Beginning in 1935, Constance Bergen co-starred with Charley Chase for the first four comedy shorts of the year and then Joyce Compton joined the fun for a trio of comedy short films.
April of 1936 saw Laurel and Hardy team with Chase for On the Wrong Trek and 1936 also saw the release of the troubled feature-film production of Neighborhood House, co-starring Rosina Lawrence and Our Gang regular Darla Hood … it ended up being cut down and sent out to theatres as a short film, Chase’s last at Hal Roach.
Bonus features include commentary by Richard M. Roberts and the Spanish-language version of Girl Shock (1930, with Edgar Kennedy and Carmen Guerrero) titled ¡Huye, Faldas!
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