Hal Roach's Streamliners

Hal Roach's Streamliners are a series of featurette comedy films created by Hal Roach that are longer than a short subject and shorter than a feature film, not exceeding 50 minutes in length.[1] Twenty of the 29 features that Roach produced for United Artists were in the streamliner format.[1] They usually consisted of five 10-minute reels.[2]

  1. ^ a b King, Molloy & Tzioumakis 2012, p. 53.
  2. ^ Bosley Crowther review: "'Tanks a Million', a Hal Roach Comedy About Army Life as It Isn't, at Loew's Criterion", The New York Times, October 9, 1941.