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So's Your Old Man

1926 · 67 min

A gentle, playful silent comedy that charms with its slapstick inventions and warm-hearted underdog spirit.

Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Genres: Comedy
Starring: W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Tagline: "Could you drive a car through a tree- beat any golfer alive- Make bricks bounce off glass?" So's Your old Man.
Overview: Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

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Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Genres: Comedy
Starring: W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

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Tone: lightstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
class
ambition
identity
redemption
Places: small town
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	7
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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Starring: W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kittens Reichert, Marcia Harris, Julia Ralph, Frank Montgomery, Jerry Sinclair
Runtime: 67 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: No Language

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