This is one of my favorite Snark Ensemble scores. The opening is a little slow but once it gets into the flashback it's inventive, charming, and wildly funny. Langdon, Capra, and Edwards are in top form. The dinner scene is one of my favorites in all of silent comedy.
Here are the details:
Starring: Harry Langdon and Vernon Dent
Director: Harry Edwards
Writers: Frank Capra and Arthur Ripley; Hal Conklin and Vernon Smith
Produced by Mack Sennett
Release Date: 9 November 1924 (USA)
Music by Phil Carluzzo performed by the Snark Ensemble.
The score calls for 4 players (with the two woodwind doublers): Piccolo, Flute, English horn, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, alto saxophone, Baritone saxophone, 2 melodicas, Accordion, Guitar, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Tubular bells, percussion, Piano, and Fender Rhodes Keyboard
The performers:
Reed 1, and Accordion: Julian Dale Barton
Reed 2, Melodica, Glockenspiel, and Vibraphone: Maurice Saylor
Percussion, Melodica, and Guitar: Phil Carluzzo
Keyboards: Andrew Earle Simpson
from the 4 DVD set, Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection on All Day Entertainment
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