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The Extraordinary
World of
Charley Bowers
(1917-1940)

Contents: Grill-Room Express [The Extra Quick Lunch] (1917), A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), Egged On (1926), Fatal Footsteps (1926), He Done His Best (1926), Now You Tell One (1926), Many a Slip (1927), Nothing Doing (1927), A Wild Roomer (1927), Say Ah-h! (1928) [fragment], There It Is (1928), Whoozit (1928) [fragment], It’s a Bird (1930), Believe It or Don’t (1935), Oil Can and Does (1940), A Sleepless Night (1940) and Wild Oysters (1940).

Flicker Alley
2019 Blu-ray Disc edition

The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers (1917-1940), black & white, 288 minutes total, not rated, including Grill-Room Express [The Extra Quick Lunch] (1917), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, A.W.O.L.; or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck (1919), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated, Egged On (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Fatal Footsteps (1926), black & white, 22 minutes. not rated, He Done His Best (1926), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Now You Tell One (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Many a Slip (1927), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Nothing Doing (1927), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, A Wild Roomer (1927), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, Say Ah-h! (1928) [fragment], black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, There It Is (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Whoozit (1928) [fragment], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, It’s a Bird (1930), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, Believe It or Don’t (1935), black & white, 8 minutes, not rated, Oil Can and Does (1940), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, A Sleepless Night (1940), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Wild Oysters (1940), black & white, 10 minutes, not rated.

Alternate Cover

Flicker Alley, FA0064, UPC 6-17311-68649-8.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Mbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; two-disc BD keepcase; $59.98.
Release date: 12 July 2019.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 7 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7.

This Blu-ray Disc collection, a reworking of Lobster Films’ 2004 DVD collection of Charley Bowers films, has been remastered at 2K high-resolution from very-good to excellent 35mm prints — some that are incomplete and some that are beginning to decompose.

The films feature optional musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin, Antonio Coppola and Neil Brand.

The supplemental material includes: Looking for Charley Bowers (15 minutes); and a 24-page booklet with an introduction by Serge Bromberg, an essay by Sean Alexander and a brief Bowers filmography.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in the collection, see our A.W.O.L. on home video page.

This is our recommended collection of Charley Bowers’ films.

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