Reviewing Langdon's career and movies, silent film critic and author Dan Navarro wrote, "When Harry Langdon's "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" premiered in March 1926, it was greeted by moviegoers as a worthy challenger to the great films of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. Langdon was hailed as 'the fourth comedy genius.' That heady feeling was reinforced when, in September 1926, Langdon appeared in an even better picture, Frank Capra's "The Strong Man"...film was Frank Capra's first directorial effort, and his genius shines through."