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The 'crazylegs' scene

posted 10 years ago by skylands
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The insane cellar wood-bin routine was perfectly recreated from the 1926 Sydney Chaplin film "The Better 'ole" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016643/reference . I'm just seeing it now on TCM.

Not like borrowing/lifting that riotous old bit should matter...

I love it!

Here's the Murder,He Says/Fred MacMurray version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvp-EbRK0KE

[–] mlevans 10 years ago

I wonder if it inspired the only funny scene from Haunted Honeymoon, where Gene Wilder does a similar bit.

[–] skylands 10 years ago

Good call! I just viewed the Wilder version, he does it perfectly. Never saw it before.

[–] mals2011 8 years ago

Wilder also does a similar scene in (with an dead man's arm) in Young Frankenstein. Always cracks me up.

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous"
Ludwig Borne

[–] rway-1 8 years ago

I died watching that scene. "Keep a-sittin' rat where you are." Hilarious

[–] mals2011 8 years ago

Hope you recovered! I agree, it made me laugh out loud, and I don't do that often...

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
Ludwig Borne