Dave Morris
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Birthday: June 06, 1884
Deathday: November 27, 1955
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Juno and the Paycock
1930-06-29
Juno and the Paycock
Overview: During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-29
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You're My Everything
1949-07-22
You're My Everything
Overview: In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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Crazy to Act
1927-05-15
Crazy to Act
Overview: Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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Musclebound Music
1926-05-30
Musclebound Music
Overview: Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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A Prodigal Bridegroom
1926-06-25
A Prodigal Bridegroom
Overview: Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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Hotsy-Totsy
1925-12-20
Hotsy-Totsy
Overview: Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-20
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Her Actor Friend
1926-08-29
Her Actor Friend
Overview: A 1926 comedy short directed by Eddy Cline.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Wandering Willies
1926-03-28
Wandering Willies
Overview: Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Should Husbands Marry?
1926-10-26
Should Husbands Marry?
Overview: Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-26
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A Harem Knight
1926-11-06
A Harem Knight
Overview: A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud of his long list of feminine conquests. But the Navy officer again comes to her rescue, and Sir Rodney is left to marry the harem's fattest woman after she puts a love potion in his drink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
1927-01-23
Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
Overview: Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-23
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Peaches and Plumbers
1927-02-20
Peaches and Plumbers
Overview: To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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A Small Town Princess
1927-03-20
A Small Town Princess
Overview: A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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Pa Says
1913-07-21
Pa Says
Overview: First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because he spent a nickel for a ticket for a voting contest for the fairest girl in town, Pa's daughter, of course, then Theodore decided to settle Pa. He played at being a lady. Then Pa said he might not be as young as he used to be, but Ma came along. So Pa said all on the sly, "Go to it, Theodore."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-21
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Crossed Love and Swords
1915-05-12
Crossed Love and Swords
Overview: It's love among the elite in this Keystone from 1915, in which normal-looking people in well-fitting clothes go through the same sort of hi-jinks that the hoi polloi do. It's a couple of minutes before the first weird mustache appears and it took me twice that to recognize that bright eyed, lanky girl with the snub nose as Louise Fazenda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-12
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Tango Tangles
1914-03-09
Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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When a Man's a Prince
1926-08-15
When a Man's a Prince
Overview: The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-15
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The Widow's Kids
1913-08-04
The Widow's Kids
Overview: In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating traveling salesman, who won away their fickle Ma, did not, but through the widow's deception, the kids won the parent of their hearts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-04
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Papa's Baby
1913-08-14
Papa's Baby
Overview: To be a fond and devoted parent, and to be unable to play with the heaven of your heart is indeed a cruel decree. That was the case of Papa Binks, but he outwitted Mrs. Binks and the nurse in a very effective, yet unostentatious manner, while he and the baby had the time of their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-14
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The Lady in Black
1913-09-11
The Lady in Black
Overview: Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young hero carefully, you will see him gallantly rescue the lady in black about to be burned at the stake, while at the same time he saved the fair heroine from the mad ambition of her father about to marry her to the dastardly ex-governor of Utah.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-11
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The Old Barn
1929-02-03
The Old Barn
Overview: The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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The Jolly Jilter
1927-03-13
The Jolly Jilter
Overview: Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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Mixed Nuts
1922-03-08
Mixed Nuts
Overview: Nuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-08
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Sherlock's Home
1924-05-13
Sherlock's Home
Overview: Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-13
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The Making Over of Mother
1916-10-15
The Making Over of Mother
Overview: Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take her to live with them. Neal, who has never met her, remonstrated furiously but in vain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-15
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Broke in China
1927-04-23
Broke in China
Overview: Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-23
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Too Many Highballs
1933-02-10
Too Many Highballs
Overview: Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Gertie's Gasoline Glide
1916-05-17
Gertie's Gasoline Glide
Overview: Two men are vying for the favours of Gaby. One of them takes her for a motorcycle ride, the other in his car. When the second man manages to marry her, the first takes his revenge. He calls the police, and takes the newlyweds along on a kamikaze ride in his car, chased by the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-17
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Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
Hollywood Cavalcade
Overview: Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Greenwich Village
1944-09-27
Greenwich Village
Overview: In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-27
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Wife, Husband and Friend
1939-03-03
Wife, Husband and Friend
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939-04-04
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Overview: Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-04
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939-06-09
Young Mr. Lincoln
Overview: In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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Sitting Pretty
1948-03-10
Sitting Pretty
Overview: Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939-11-03
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Overview: New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Black and White
1913-08-27
Black and White
Overview: They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went off for the eats. But Cleopatra and her sweet-potato pies ended the despotism. She saved the "lovin' man" of her race. Tabasco and an officer of the law did it, while white made a fast retreating speck up the track.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-27
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Father's Chicken Dinner
1913-08-17
Father's Chicken Dinner
Overview: Clarence Barr comes home to discover that Sylvia Ashton and Charles West are getting ready to butcher a chicken for his dinner… but he thinks they're talking about him and not a bird! Fortunately, Charles Murray has prepared his squad of policemen for rapid response by equipping them with roller skates…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-17
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The Gay Caballero
1940-10-04
The Gay Caballero
Overview: The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
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Fallen Angel
1945-11-15
Fallen Angel
Overview: An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Liberty Belles
1914-05-13
Liberty Belles
Overview: Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-13
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That Doggone Baby
1916-10-20
That Doggone Baby
Overview: That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-20
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Lillian Russell
1940-05-24
Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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20,000 Men a Year
1939-10-26
20,000 Men a Year
Overview: Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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Swamp Water
1941-11-16
Swamp Water
Overview: A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-16
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Tracked by the Police
1927-05-07
Tracked by the Police
Overview: The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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A Bear Affair
1915-04-28
A Bear Affair
Overview: Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-28
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Ambrose's Lofty Perch
1915-04-02
Ambrose's Lofty Perch
Overview: King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-02
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Ambrose's Fury
1915-03-24
Ambrose's Fury
Overview: A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-24
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From Patches to Plenty
1915-03-06
From Patches to Plenty
Overview: A poor man finds a bag with a lot of money resulting in a change of lifestyle. But not without complications...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-06
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Beware of Bachelors
1928-10-27
Beware of Bachelors
Overview: A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming that her husband is having an affair, decides to have one herself with a perfumer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-27
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High School
1940-01-26
High School
Overview: A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Fight Night
1926-05-09
Fight Night
Overview: While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Walter's jealous wife suspects there may be some hanky-panky involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-09
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Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
Too Busy to Work
Overview: The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Safety in Numbers
1938-05-30
Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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Tearing Through
1925-04-12
Tearing Through
Overview: Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Ambrose's Little Hatchet
1915-03-15
Ambrose's Little Hatchet
Overview: Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including her husband -- see him as killing a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-15
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
1915-04-16
Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Overview: Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-16
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