“Who are you?”
“B-i-double F-iffle. Biffle! S-h-double O-ooster. Shooster! We’re Biffle and Shooster! Need we say more?”
In 1928, the vaudeville comedy duo of Benny Biffle and Sam Shooster made the transition from the stage to the nascent medium of talking pictures with a pair of Vitaphone one-reelers. That move was a modest but immediate success, breaking ground on what would be a string of 20 comedy shorts made by the team for independent producer Sam Weinberg, which would both build on their reputations as worthy occupants of a comedy firmament anchored by stars like Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello, but also cement Weinberg’s standing as a producer who liked to lean a little too heavily upon the blueprint of others. In 1938, Biffle and Shooster parted ways with Weinberg, but they continued to work sporadically in films, including a cameo appearance in Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad,...
“B-i-double F-iffle. Biffle! S-h-double O-ooster. Shooster! We’re Biffle and Shooster! Need we say more?”
In 1928, the vaudeville comedy duo of Benny Biffle and Sam Shooster made the transition from the stage to the nascent medium of talking pictures with a pair of Vitaphone one-reelers. That move was a modest but immediate success, breaking ground on what would be a string of 20 comedy shorts made by the team for independent producer Sam Weinberg, which would both build on their reputations as worthy occupants of a comedy firmament anchored by stars like Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello, but also cement Weinberg’s standing as a producer who liked to lean a little too heavily upon the blueprint of others. In 1938, Biffle and Shooster parted ways with Weinberg, but they continued to work sporadically in films, including a cameo appearance in Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad,...
- 7/21/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Do you miss the Stooges? Miss Edgar Kennedy? Here’s a bizarre bill of goods for committed film fans in search of retro fun. Will Ryan and Nick Santa Maria perform as a madcap ’30s comedy team in a series of imaginatively re-created broad short subjects, all designed to fit the style of the era. It works like gangbusters for those who relish their vintage slapstick laughs.
The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!
DVD
Kino Lorber
2013-2016 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 131 min. cumulative (or nimbus) / Street Date May 22, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Nick Santa Maria, Will Ryan.
Cinematography: Douglas Knapp
Film Editor and more: Bill Bryn Russell
Produced by Michael Demeritt
Written-Produced-Directed by Michael Schlesinger
It takes about three minutes to fall under the peculiar spell woven by The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!, a collection of new short subjects. Biffle and Shooster are a mythical comedy...
The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!
DVD
Kino Lorber
2013-2016 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 131 min. cumulative (or nimbus) / Street Date May 22, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Nick Santa Maria, Will Ryan.
Cinematography: Douglas Knapp
Film Editor and more: Bill Bryn Russell
Produced by Michael Demeritt
Written-Produced-Directed by Michael Schlesinger
It takes about three minutes to fall under the peculiar spell woven by The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster!, a collection of new short subjects. Biffle and Shooster are a mythical comedy...
- 6/5/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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