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Comedy Classics V.1

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Volume 1 of Platinum's "Comedy Classics" series is perhaps more deserving of the title than Volume 2 in the series, with two Harold Lloyd classics, a Wheeler and Woolsey vehicle and Roland Young and Joan Blondell in the third Topper film.

Topper Returns is a predictable entry in the Topper series, but is charmingly acted by the likes of Joan Blondell, Roland Young and Billie Burke. Possibly not a comedy classic, but definitely a stellar cast.

Hook, Line and Sinker has the zingy one-liners and zany characters typical of a Wheeler and Woolsey picture. Bert Wheeler plays the elder member of a pair of confidence men, and Robert Woolsey the junior member who falls in love with a hotel heiress played by Dorothy Lee.

The Milky Way is definitely a "comedy classic," and one of Harold Lloyd's best talking pictures. So successful was the tale of milkman-turned-fighter Burleigh Sullivan that Danny Kaye remade the film a decade later as The Kid from Brooklyn, changing little.

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock was Harold Lloyd's last of 200+ films, released in 1947. In it Lloyd manages to overcome the acting-with-animals curse by outshining 37 lions (including the famous "Jackie"), 14 tigers, 9 jaguars and 1 puma. Definitely a film worth looking at.