Edgar Kennedy Two-Reeler Comedy Collection (1933) Rating: Starring: Dot Farley, Arthur Housman, Edgar Kennedy, Florence Lake, Vivian Oakland, Jack Rice Director: Lloyd French, Alf Goulding, Ben Holmes, Arthur Ripley, Charle E. Roberts, Harry Sweet, Hal Yates Category: Comedy Studio: VCI Home Video/ Magic Lantern Subtitles: Length: 180 mins     The King of the Slow-Burn Routine! American comic actor Edgar Kennedy began his film career working for Max Sennett on the Keystone comedies. He later moved over to Hal Roach Studios, where he developed his stock-in-trade "slow burn" routine. In 1931 he wound up at RKO Studios where he starred in a total of 103 two-reelers, unofficially titled "Mr. Average Man." These short films, precursors to the TV sitcoms of the 1950s, cast Kennedy as the head of a zany family, which included his ditzy wife (usually played by Florence Lake, sister of Arthur "Dagwood" Lake), a nagging mother-in-law and lazy brother-in-law. This special DVD collection contains ten of his funniest shorts from this period on one long-playing DVD: Baby Daze (1939) Good Housewrecking (1933) Rough on Rents (1942) Will Power (1936) Help Wanted Female (1930-Pathe) Wrong Direction (1934) Beaux and Errors (1938) Hold Your Temper (1943) Feather Your Nest (1944) I'll Build it Myself (1946)