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The Keystone Cops (often spelled " Keystone Kops ") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.
Keystone Kops, an incredibly incompetent police force, dressed in ill-fitting, unkempt uniforms, that appeared regularly in Mack Sennett’s silent-film slapstick farces from about 1912 to the early 1920s.
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Peter Lovesey's 1983 novel Keystone is a whodunnit set in the Keystone Studios and involving (among others), Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle, and the Keystone Cops. Dan Aykroyd portrayed Mack Sennett in the 1992 movie Chaplin alongside Marisa Tomei as Mabel Normand and Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin.
Mack Sennett (born January 17, 1880, Richmond, Quebec, Canada—died November 5, 1960, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was the creator of the Keystone Kops and the father of American slapstick comedy in motion pictures.
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The Keystone Kops. By the end of the 1990s, almost nine decades since their first appearance on the early silent screen in Hoffmeyer's Legacy (1912), Mack Sennett 's Keystone Kops had long entered the language as a byword for bungling, absurd, and hilarious incompetency.
Nov 5, 2010 · The Keystone Kops. Like ‘cut to the chase,’ the phrase ‘Keystone cops’ has also become shorthand, a way of describing anything chaotic, bumbling and inept. Sen.
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Keystone Kops. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, comedy was the favorite genre of moviegoers, and no moviemaker was more adept at tickling the funnybones of audiences than Mack Sennett (1880–1960).
