The stars (1962)

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Episodes in the short, unhappy screen life of Harry Langdon, who had an uncanny, fluttery ability to parody a child's panic at encountering the unknown. The curious incident of the bicycle, in Long Pants. The face Harry Langdon presented to disaster was totally different from Keaton's. It was, as Agee suggests, that I of an infant — and a rather unhealthy one at that — permanently arrested in the premoral stage. There was no calmness here only ill-concealed panic. He was the master of 1 the panidky flutter when confronted, as he constantly was, ' by danger. The point about Langdon, who sometimes rose to heights of almost surrealist madness his contemporaries '; never attempted, was that, in direct opposition to Keaton, he was totally incompetent physically as well as mentally ' and morally. Not knowing right from wrong he would try 100