Shazia Mirza

Slapstick’s celebration of early screen comediennes starts with stand-up Shazia Mirza introducing Annette Benson as Mae - one half of a husband and wife acting team torn apart when he (Brian Aherne) discovers she is having an affair.

Mae then decides to get rid of her spouse by putting a real bullet into a prop gun being used in their new film but matters don’t quite go to plan in this hilarious Anthony Asquith comedy, newly restored by the BFI.

Also featured is a screening of 'What's the World Coming To?' (Dir: Richard Wallace US 1926 23mins), a little known Hal Roach comedy set 100 years in the future when gender roles have reversed.
Starring Clyde Cook and Katherine Grant and accompanied live by Guenter A. Buchwald and Frank Bockius.