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The Plank

"You'll splinter your sides laughing at this classic of all comedies"

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

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