Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Harry Edwards

Writers:

Release Date:

21 March 1926 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her...

Plot Keywords:

Mortgage | Contest | Contestant | Fruit | Chain Gang

Cast

Harry Langdon	...	Harry Logan
Joan Crawford	...	Betty Burton
Edwards Davis	...	John Burton
Tom Murray	...	Nick Kargas
Alec B. Francis	...	Amos Logan
Brooks Benedict	...	Taxi Driver
Carlton Griffin	...	Roger Caldwell

Runtime:

62 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Harry Langdon Corporation

Trivia:

When Harry and Joan's "baby" is introduced, we see that he is also played by Harry Langdon. This came about because the real baby that was to be used for the scene wouldn't cooperate, and as a gag Langdon had the cameraman shoot him playing the baby. After it was screened, Langdon liked it so much he left it in.

Movie Connections:

References The Gold Rush (1925)

not great

Judging from this film and THE STRONG MAN, made the same year, I would not place Harry Langdon at the top of the list of great silent screen comedians. There simply is not enough there. Perhaps he was on his way to developing his style but sabotaged himself by taking his first big successes too seriously. In any event, all of his tricks are reminiscent of the greater funny men, but he lacks the acrobatic skills of Keaton and the prodigious ingenuity of Lloyd. He also undermines his own persona by dressing and walking like Chaplin's tramp character. His trademarks are childlike innocence, timidity of approach and a tendency to under-react to calamity by looking perplexed, batting his eyes or touching his pursed lips with the tip of his forefinger. The comedy in Langdon's films results from fate throwing various obstacles in his path which he tries to overcome in wimpy or naïve ways or with a minimum of physicality, such as throwing rocks at an approaching tornado to drive it away, propping up a collapsing building with a two-by-four or dodging boulders by lifting a leg so that they roll under him. In this story, about the son of a shoemaker who joins a cross-country walking race to publicize a rival company's footwear, he manages to win by sheer luck. There is nothing here that hasn't been done far better by the Big Three.