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Director
  
Leo McCarey

Producer
  
Hal Roach

Duration
  

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Cinematography
  
Fred Jackman, Len Powers

Country
  
United States

Isnt Life Terrible movie poster
Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Release date
  
July 5, 1925 (1925-07-05)

Cast
  
Charley Chase
(The Husband),
Katherine Grant
(The Wife),
Oliver Hardy
(Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)),
Lon Poff
(Mr. Jolly),
Fay Wray
(Potential Pen-Buyer (uncredited))

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Isnt Life Terrible? is a 1925 film starring Charley Chase and featuring Oliver Hardy and Fay Wray. This short is a parody on D. W. Griffiths 1924 drama Isnt Life Wonderful (1924).

Isnt It Shocking? movie scenes Things escalated so much that director William Freidkin actually called in his own exorcist to bless the film set and put the cast and crew at ease

The staircase used in this film is the same outdoor staircase seen in Hats Off (1927) and The Music Box (1932). The staircase still exists in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?

Cast

  • Charley Chase as Charley
  • Katherine Grant as The Wife
  • Oliver Hardy as Remington (as Babe Hardy)
  • Lon Poff as Mr. Jolly
  • Leo Willis as A mover
  • Fay Wray as Potential pen buyer
  • Sammy Brooks
  • Kathleen Collins
  • Jules Mendel
  • George Rowe

    • References

    Isnt Life Terrible? Wikipedia
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    Isnt Life Terrible? IMDb Isnt Life Terrible? themoviedb.org