HARRY LANGDON ($12/volume...$30/set)

also see EL BRENDEL & HARRY LANGDON

HARRY LANGDON VOL. 1

COUNSEL ON DE FENCE (10/25/34) D: Arthur Ripley. Renee Whitney, Earle Foxe, Marjorie "Babe" Kane, Jack Norton, William Irving, Charles Dorety, Lew Davis, Robert Bobby Burns. Harry, a bungling lawyer, chooses and unorthodox method of defending a woman on trial for poisoning her husband. TRIVIA: The original working title was THE BARRISTER.

LOVE, HONOR, AND OBEY (THE LAW!) (1935) No director or cast credited. Monty Collins. Harry is on his way to that altar, and must make it their without getting a ticket. Monty does everything he can to stop him because he is in love with the same woman Harry is about to marry. NOTE: This is not an "official" Columbia short. Harry made this industrial two-reeler for The B.F. Goodrich Company. It was produced by Audio Productions Inc at the General Service Studios in Hollywood. The opening credits list that Harry appears "By Special Arrangement With Columbia Pictures". This title is included here for that reason.

HIS BRIDAL SWEET (3/15/35) D: Alf Goulding. Geneva Mitchell, Billy Gilbert, Bud Jamison, Lew Kelly. Due to a quarantine, Harry and his bride are forced to stay in a new model home equipped with crazy gimmicks.

THE LEATHER NECKER (5/9/35) D: Arthur Ripley. Wade Boteler, Bud Jamison. Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl. TRIVIA: This is a remake of Langdon's silent ALL NIGHT LONG.

I DON'T REMEMBER (12/26/35) D: Preston Black. Geneva Mitchell, Mary Carr, Vernon Dent, Robert Bobby Burns, Lynton Brent, Harry Semels, Al Thompson, Charles Heine Conklin, Bobby Barber. Absentminded Harry is talking into buying an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. TRIVIA: Remade with Sterling Holloway as MORON THAN OFF (1946).

A DOGGONE MIXUP (2/4/38) D: Charles Lamont. Ann Doran, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, James C. Morton, Eddie Fetherstone, Bess Flowers, Sarah Edwards. Harry, a compulsive bargain-hunter, purchases a St. Bernard dog. TRIVIA: The original working title was NO SALES RESISTANCE.

HARRY LANGDON VOL. 2

SUE MY LAWYER (9/16/38) D: Jules White. Ann Doran, Monty Collins, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Cy Schindell, Don Brody, Charles Dorety, Jack Tiny Lipson, Robert Bobby Burns. Harry, a struggling attorney, tries to gain recognition by defending a murderer. TRIVIA: The original story title THE AMBULANCE CHASER.

COLD TURKEY (10/18/40) D: Del Lord. Ann Doran, Monty Collins, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Eddie Laughton. Harry wins a live turkey in a raffle. TRIVIA: A remake of the 1933 Joseph Cawthorn Paramount short of the same name. The Langdon version has story and screenplay credit by Harry Edwards and Elwood Ullman. Story credit for the Cawthorn version goes to Mauri Grashin and Lloyd French, with adaptation by Scott E. Cleethorp. Both films were directed by Del Lord.

WHAT MAKES LIZZY DIZZY? (3/26/42) D: Jules White. Elise Ames, Dorothy Appleby, Monty Collins, Lorin Raker, Bud Jamison, Kathryn Sabichi, Kay Vallon. Laundresses Elise and Dorothy, along with their detective boyfriends Harry and Monty, enter a bowling tournament. TRIVIA: Elsie Ames shares above the-title-billing with Harry Langdon.

TIREMAN, SPARE MY TIRES (6/14/42) D: Jules White. Louise Currie, Emmett Lynn, Eddie Laughton, Bud Jamison. Harry, a traveling salesman, befriends Louise, a runaway heiress. TRIVIA: The original working title was HONEYMOON BLACKOUT.

CARRY HARRY (9/3/42) D: Harry Edwards. Elise Ames, Barbara Pepper, Stanley Blystone, Marjorie Deanne, Dave OBrien. Harry uses the fire escape to enter a friends apartment but inadvertently climbs through the wrong window. TRIVIA: Elsie Ames shares above-the-title billing with Harry Langdon.

PIANO MOONER (12/11/42) D: Harry Edwards. Fifi Dorsay, Gwen Kenyon, Better Blythe, Chester Conklin, Stanley Blystone. Harry, badly in need of funds, becomes a piano tuner.

HARRY LANGDON VOL. 3

A BLITZ ON THE FRITZ (1/22/43) D: Jules White. Louise Currie, Douglas Leavitt, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Jack Tiny Lipson, Blanche Payson, Charles Berry, Al Hill, Al Thompson, Beatrice Blinn, Joe Palma, Stanley Blystone, Bud Fine, Kit Guard. Patriotic Harry starts a scrap drive and encounters a gang of Nazi spies. TRIVIA: The original working title was SWAT THAT SPY.

BLONDE AND GROOM (4/16/43) D: Harry Edwards. Gwen Kenyon, Barbara Pepper, Eddy Chandler, Stanley Blyston. When Harry's buddy brings his fiancée over for a visit, Mrs. Langdon gets the mistaken impression that hubby is being unfaithful.

HERE COMES MR. ZERK (7/23/43) D: Jules White. Shirley Patterson, John T. Murray, Fred Kelsey, Bob McKenzie, Dudley Dickerson, Hank Mann, Vernon Dent, Charles Heine Conklin, Eva McKenzie, Blanche Payson. A newspaper article carries the wrong caption under bridegroom Harry's photo, identifying him as an escaped lunatic. TRIVIA: The original working title was SUE YOU LATER.

TO HEIR IS HUMAN (1/14/44) D: Harold Godsoe. Una Merkel, Christine McIntyre, Lew Kelly, Eddie Gribbon, John Tyrell, Vernon Dent. Una, an aspiring private detective, locates Harry, a missing heir, and accompanies him to a forbidding mansion where he is to collect the inheritance. TRIVIA: Una Merkel shares above-the-title billing with Harry Langdon, and one of the few Columbia comedy shorts to employ background music.

DEFECTIVE DETECTIVES (4/3/44) D: Harry Edwards. El Brendel, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Snub Pollard, Heinie Conklin, John Tyrell, Eddie Laughton, Snub Pollard, Dick Boiler. Private detectives Harry and El are hired to keep on the trail of a mobster who has been threatening injury to a banker and his wife.

PISTOL PACKIN' NITWITS (4/4/45) D: Harry Edwards. El Brendel, Christine McIntyre, Brad King, Dick Curtis, Tex Cooper, Victor Cox, Charles Heine Conklin. Harry and El protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of Western thugs. TRIVIA: Columbia Production #4035. The original working title was TENDERFEET. Reworked with the Three Stooges as OUT WEST (1947).

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SHIVERS (12/24/34) D: Arthur Ripley. Florence Lake, Chester Gan, Louis Vincenot. Mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.

HIS MARRIAGE MIX-UP (10/31/35) D: Preston Black. Dorothy Granger, Vernon Dent, Robert Bobby Burns. Harry's bride-to-be is a dead ringer for an escaped axe murderess. TRIVIA: Remade with Vera Vague as A MISS IN A MESS (1949).