PATHS TO PARADISE with short film DOG SHY
Special Features: Live musical accompaniment by Ben Model. Intro by David Lefever, Director, Art Deco Society of Washington
New DCP Restoration
PATHS TO PARADISE
Molly (Betty Compson) runs a tourist trap dive bar in a seedy corner of San Francisco. She and her gang make enough dough perpetrating light frauds to attract the attention of other con artists in the city, including the wily "Dude from Duluth" (Raymond Griffith). Love and larceny team up when these two thieves meet cute, then set their sights on a big score together. Although less remembered today than his comedic contemporaries like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Griffith, "the Silk Hat Comedian," was a major star in a string of classy Paramount comedies of the mid-1920s. Walter Kerr, author of "The Silent Clowns," rated him highly remarking, "Griffith seems to me to occupy a handsome fifth place — after Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and Langdon — in the silent comedy pantheon." DIR Clarence Badger; SCR Keene Thompson, from the play "The Heart of a Thief" by Paul Armstrong; PROD Adolph Zukor, Jesse Lasky. U.S., 1925, b&w, 67 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
Film preserved by the Library of Congress; new digital restoration by Undercrank Productions.
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New DCP restoration
DOG SHY
A series of mix-ups lands Charley (Charley Chase) with a new job as a butler in a palatial Los Angeles home. Told to "give the Duke a bath," Charley attempts to bathe his employers' noble houseguest, there to woo the family's reluctant daughter (Mildred June), who much prefers Charley. But "the Duke" is actually the family dog, and Charley is deathly afraid of canines. Can Charley overcome his fear and win the girl? DIR Leo McCarey; SCR Charley Chase, H. M. Walker; PROD Hal Roach. U.S., 1926, b&w, 24 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
Film preserved by the Library of Congress; new digital restoration by Undercrank Productions.
Co-presented by Art Deco Society of Washington.
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, November 19, 2022
Genre: Silent comedy
