Edward Everett Horton: 8 Silent Comedies Blu-ray
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Posted May 13, 2026 06:42 PM by Webmaster
Undercrank Productions has informed us that it will release on Blu-ray Edward Everett Horton: 8 Silent Comedies. The two-disc set is scheduled to arrive on the market on June 9.
Descriptionm: The Blu-ray set unearths eight uproarious silent comedies starring Edward Everett Horton made years before his best remembered roles as a supporting actor in the 1930s and 1940s. The disc includes a short video essay about Horton's life and career narrated by film historian Steve Massa.
"Having the production values of the Lloyd features," says film historian Steve Massa, "the best of these shorts are right up there with Laurel and Hardy's Big Business (1929), Max Davidson's Pass the Gravy (1928), and Charley Chase's Limousine Love (1928) as examples of the final peak of silent comedy."
Long unavailable and mostly forgotten, the shorts survived and were preserved in the 1970s. Undercrank Productions, together with the Library of Congress, is proud to present these new digital restorations made from 35mm preservation elements, and unveil an unknown chapter in the career of a great comedian and movie icon. All films feature new musical scores by Ben Model on theatre organ or piano.
CONTENT:
Presented with musical scores composed and performed by Ben Model. Films curated by Steve Massa and Ben Model. Digital restoration by Origins Archival. Associate Producer Crystal Kui.
No Publicity (August 1, 1927) - 21 min.
Director: N. T. Barrows; Starring Edward Everett Horton, Ruth Dwyer, Josephine Crowell.
Find The King (November 5, 1927) - 22 min.
Director: J. A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Violet Bird, Jack Raymond, Richard R. Neill.
Dad's Choice (January 7, 1928) - 22 min.
Director: J. A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Sharon Lynn, Otis Harlan, Josephine Crowell.
Behind the Counter (March 3, 1928) - 21 min.
Director: J. A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Dorothy Dwan, Oscar Smith, Nigel Barrie.
Horse Shy (May 19, 1928) - 21 min.
Director: Jay A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Nita Cavalier, Bruce Covington, William Gillespie.
Scrambled Weddings (June 30, 1928) - 20 min.
Director: N. T. Barrows; Starring E.E.H., Stanley Taylor, Ruth Dwyer, Josephine Crowell.
Vacation Waves (September 15, 1928) - 21 min.
Director. N. T. Barrows; Starring E.E.H., Duane Thompson, Aileen Manning.
Call Again (October 20, 1928) - 21 min.
Director: Jay A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Duane Thompson, Aileen Manning.
Bonus Feature: Edward Everett Horton: Silent Clown? (2021) - 9 min.
Undercrank Productions
Producer: Crystal Kui; Writer and Narrator: Steve Massa; Music: Ben Model.
ABOUT BEN MODEL
Ben Model is one of the nation's leading silent film accompanists and has been a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) since 1984 and at the Library of Congress since 2008. He accompanies silent films on piano and theatre organ regularly at MoMA, the Library of Congress, the Silent Clowns Film Series (NYC), and at many festivals, theatres and schools around the US and internationally. Since March 2020, Model and film historian Steve Massa have live-streamed The Silent Comedy Watch Party on YouTube for free each week to thousands of silent film fans. His recorded scores can be heard on numerous releases from Kino Lorber, Milestone Films and on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Model is a Visiting Professor of Film at Wesleyan University, where he teaches silent film history. He is also the archivist for the Ernie Kovacs/Edie Adams collection and has programmed three DVD box sets of Kovacs' TV shows for Shout Factory. He is based in New York City.
Descriptionm: The Blu-ray set unearths eight uproarious silent comedies starring Edward Everett Horton made years before his best remembered roles as a supporting actor in the 1930s and 1940s. The disc includes a short video essay about Horton's life and career narrated by film historian Steve Massa.
"Having the production values of the Lloyd features," says film historian Steve Massa, "the best of these shorts are right up there with Laurel and Hardy's Big Business (1929), Max Davidson's Pass the Gravy (1928), and Charley Chase's Limousine Love (1928) as examples of the final peak of silent comedy."
Long unavailable and mostly forgotten, the shorts survived and were preserved in the 1970s. Undercrank Productions, together with the Library of Congress, is proud to present these new digital restorations made from 35mm preservation elements, and unveil an unknown chapter in the career of a great comedian and movie icon. All films feature new musical scores by Ben Model on theatre organ or piano.
CONTENT:
Presented with musical scores composed and performed by Ben Model. Films curated by Steve Massa and Ben Model. Digital restoration by Origins Archival. Associate Producer Crystal Kui.
No Publicity (August 1, 1927) - 21 min.
Director: N. T. Barrows; Starring Edward Everett Horton, Ruth Dwyer, Josephine Crowell.
Find The King (November 5, 1927) - 22 min.
Director: J. A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Violet Bird, Jack Raymond, Richard R. Neill.
Dad's Choice (January 7, 1928) - 22 min.
Director: J. A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Sharon Lynn, Otis Harlan, Josephine Crowell.
Behind the Counter (March 3, 1928) - 21 min.
Director: J. A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Dorothy Dwan, Oscar Smith, Nigel Barrie.
Horse Shy (May 19, 1928) - 21 min.
Director: Jay A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Nita Cavalier, Bruce Covington, William Gillespie.
Scrambled Weddings (June 30, 1928) - 20 min.
Director: N. T. Barrows; Starring E.E.H., Stanley Taylor, Ruth Dwyer, Josephine Crowell.
Vacation Waves (September 15, 1928) - 21 min.
Director. N. T. Barrows; Starring E.E.H., Duane Thompson, Aileen Manning.
Call Again (October 20, 1928) - 21 min.
Director: Jay A. Howe; Starring E.E.H., Duane Thompson, Aileen Manning.
Bonus Feature: Edward Everett Horton: Silent Clown? (2021) - 9 min.
Undercrank Productions
Producer: Crystal Kui; Writer and Narrator: Steve Massa; Music: Ben Model.
ABOUT BEN MODEL
Ben Model is one of the nation's leading silent film accompanists and has been a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) since 1984 and at the Library of Congress since 2008. He accompanies silent films on piano and theatre organ regularly at MoMA, the Library of Congress, the Silent Clowns Film Series (NYC), and at many festivals, theatres and schools around the US and internationally. Since March 2020, Model and film historian Steve Massa have live-streamed The Silent Comedy Watch Party on YouTube for free each week to thousands of silent film fans. His recorded scores can be heard on numerous releases from Kino Lorber, Milestone Films and on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Model is a Visiting Professor of Film at Wesleyan University, where he teaches silent film history. He is also the archivist for the Ernie Kovacs/Edie Adams collection and has programmed three DVD box sets of Kovacs' TV shows for Shout Factory. He is based in New York City.
