Chase Megapack: Charley

Stop searching for the "deep cut." Stop pretending you’ve seen every Keaton short.

Put on Mighty Like a Moose . And prepare to meet your new favorite comedian. Charley Chase MegaPack

In the golden age of silent and early sound comedy, a few names dominate the conversation: Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and later, Laurel & Hardy. But lurking just beneath that A-list is a man who might have been the most consistently hilarious of them all. His name is Charley Chase. Stop searching for the "deep cut

For decades, Chase was the "best-kept secret" of classic film buffs. That secret, however, is now gloriously out of the bag, thanks to the essential home video treasure: . In the golden age of silent and early

If you love perfectly tailored suits, double-takes that defy physics, and plots that spiral from "minor misunderstanding" into "absolute urban warfare," you need this collection. Born Charles Parrott in Baltimore in 1893, Chase was a triple-threat: director, writer, and star. While his contemporaries played tramps (Chaplin), stone-faces (Keaton), or go-getters (Lloyd), Chase played the everyday man —specifically, the everyday man who has just accidentally set his mother-in-law’s hat on fire while trying to impress a girl.

A silent film with a frantic pace. Chase is trying to get to his wedding, but his future mother-in-law’s limousine keeps getting stripped of parts by strangers. The final freeze-frame of Chase screaming silently into the camera is the stuff of comedy legend.