The Better 'Ole (1926)
With Sydney Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Tom Kennedy, Hank Mann, Harold Goodwin, Charles K. Gerrard, Olaf Hytten, Tom McGuire
Directed by Charles Reisner
The Better 'Ole is a 1926 American synchronized sound World War I comedy drama film. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., it was the second full-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process, two months after the first Vitaphone feature Don Juan. With no audible dialogue, the film does have a synchronized musical score and sound effects. This film was also the second onscreen adaptation of the 1917 musical The Better 'Ole by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot. Charlie Chaplin's eldest brother Sydney Chaplin played the main lead as Old Bill in perhaps his best-known film today. This film is also believed by many to have the first spoken word of dialog, "coffee", although th
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