Charley Chase Shorts: Volume 1

The considerable comic gifts of Charley Chase remain well-evident in these late-career efforts for Columbia's short subject department. Eight Chase-starring shorts─"Man Bites Lovebug" (1937), "The Mind Needer" (1938), "The Chump Takes a Bump" (1939), "Rattling Romeo" (1939), "Skinny the Moocher" (1939), "The Awful Goof" (1939), "The Heckler" (1940), and "South of the Boudoir" (1940), plus the Chase-directed Smith and Dale short "A Nag in the Bag" (1938)─are collected on one disc. 171 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.