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Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keating

From Keaton's "Battling Butler" (1926) and Chaplin's "City Lights" (1931)

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They spoke a language before The Talkies which stressed the physical over the verbal.

 

Keaton was first out of the gate in 1926 with “Battling Butler,” a potboiler in which a skinny guy facing a bruiser is scared to death. Chaplin followed suit with his masterpiece “City Lights” in 1931. His parody of the sport is flawless... READ MORE

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