Letting in the Sunshine

Fandango, a short Lane made for Educational Pictures in 1928. It's pleasant enough, and amusing at times, as long as you don't require a plot or expect dimensional characters. If you want basic silent comedy chuckles, you'll get them. Our setting is Bullonia, "the land of romance, castanets, onions and sweet zephyrs of garlic." Actually, it looks rather like a back-lot version of Spain or Latin America. More to the point, the atmosphere suggests the Doug Fairbanks vehicle The Gaucho, which was in general release when this short was made.

Belle-Hure and Horatio Babaorum escape from a Roman galley only to land in a Roman palace where they indulge in their antique antics!

A henpecked husband takes his wife and her children to Blackpool, where confusion reigns.

A clerk in a toy store has a fantastical dream.

Lupino Lane meets his match in the ring. Partially missing silent comedy.

An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!

Comedy star Lupino Lane is shipwrecked on a desert island.

A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.

A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane

Battling Sisters (1929) is a bizarre, futuristic gender-bending semi-spoof of ‘The Big Parade, with men and women’s roles reversed.Offering the spectacle of Wallace Lupino, in drag, vamping the helpless house husband Lane!