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Today's episode is my conversation about the 1930 film Laughter. I'm joined by Beth Lisogorsky who writes the You Need to Watch This newsletter, and we talk about the wild mess of relationships we see on screen, an ending that doesn't clearly wrap things up in a nice little bow, and the distinct lack of anything to truly laugh about in this film.

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Other films mentioned in this episode include:

• The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming
• Raffles directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and George Fitzmaurice
• The Gold Rush directed by Charlie Chaplin
• Wings directed by William A. Wellman and Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
• The Philadelphia Story directed by George Cukor
• The Devil's Holiday directed by Edmund Goulding
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Rouben Mamoulian
• The Best Years of Our Lives directed by William Wyler
• The Lady from Shanghai directed by Orson Welles
• Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra
• It Happened One Night directed by Frank Capra

Other referenced topics:

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Blondie (comic strip)
• Jonathan Rosenbaum's critique
• José Arroyo writing on Notes on Film 

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