Raymond Griffith: You’d be Surprised (Remastered)

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You’d be Surprised (1926)

Date: Fri 17th Feb, 2023
Time: 11:45 hrs
Venue: Watershed
Price: £8.50 / £5.00
Dir: Arthur Rosson
USA (1926), 65 mins, PG

Newly restored and re-issued on DVD/Blu-Ray thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign from Ben Model.

In a companion to our Live From New York event, the
Oscar-winning director, film historian and silent film champion Kevin Brownlow introduces another Raymond Griffith crime caper.

You’d be Surprised, featuring inter-titles by the humourist Robert Benchley of Algonquin Round Table fame. It provoked mixed reactions.

A contemporary critic described it as “One of the very best or very worst comedies I ever saw” but when shown recently at Cinecon, Hollywood, it was judged the undisputed hit of the weekend. With live piano accompaniment from John Sweeney.

EVENT RUNNING TIME APPROX 1 hr 15 mins

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