Gus Leonard
Biography: Gus "Pop" Leonard (February 4, 1859 – March 27, 1939) was an American film actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 02, 1859
Deathday: March 27, 1939
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Known For
Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer, the Great
Overview: Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-29
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Second Hand Love
1923-08-26
Second Hand Love
Overview: Andy Hanks is an itinerant fix-it man who comes to town with his horse and dog as his only pals. He falls in love with Angela Trent, a young woman with an air of mystery about her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Bumping Into Broadway
1919-11-02
Bumping Into Broadway
Overview: A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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His Royal Slyness
1920-02-08
His Royal Slyness
Overview: A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-08
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All Aboard
1917-11-25
All Aboard
Overview: In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-25
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Love, Laughs and Lather
1917-11-04
Love, Laughs and Lather
Overview: An Englishman and his valet have adventures in the American West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-04
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Bliss
1917-10-14
Bliss
Overview: A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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By the Sad Sea Waves
1917-09-30
By the Sad Sea Waves
Overview: Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
1917-09-16
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
Overview: Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917-08-05
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Overview: While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-05
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Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917-02-04
Luke's Trolley Troubles
Overview: Luke and his sidekick steal a trolley car and create havoc for passengers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-04
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Over the Fence
1917-09-09
Over the Fence
Overview: Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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The Girl I Loved
1923-02-15
The Girl I Loved
Overview: John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-15
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Homer Comes Home
1920-06-27
Homer Comes Home
Overview: Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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Pinched
1917-09-23
Pinched
Overview: Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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A Watery Wooing
1916-07-19
A Watery Wooing
Overview: Tom is not in favor with Flossie's aunt though the latter lady thinks he is just right. Tom's fertile brain forms a scheme and by a fake rescue of Flossie from the ocean waves he gets in the good graces of the stern aunt. But when the next day finds Aunty in peril herself the truth comes out: Tom can't swim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-19
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Mush and Milk
1933-05-27
Mush and Milk
Overview: When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918-06-23
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Overview: Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-23
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The Wind
1928-09-15
The Wind
Overview: When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Genres: Drama Western Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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An Ozark Romance
1918-07-06
An Ozark Romance
Overview: Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-06
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The Marathon
1919-05-25
The Marathon
Overview: Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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The Devil-Doll
1936-07-10
The Devil-Doll
Overview: Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Stay Single
1924-01-28
Stay Single
Overview: After Felix Valle helps rescue next door neighbor Dorothy Devore's dog from the over-zealous dog catcher, she agrees to help him get a raise in salary by pretending to be his wife. Meanwhile, her jealous husband is bringing home Felix' boss for a deal...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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Mister Antonio
1929-10-15
Mister Antonio
Overview: Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as Jorny, mayor of Avalonia, a straitlaced town where Tony was once arrested for playing his hurdy-gurdy. After this meeting, Tony's travels take him again to Avalonia. Camped on the outskirts of town, he meets June Ramsey, a cousin of the mayor's wife, ejected from town by the mayor because his reelection campaign is jeopardized by her having been seen in a roadhouse. Under considerable pressure because he wishes to conceal his previous encounter with Tony from the opposition, Jorny returns Tony's favor by asking June's forgiveness and inviting her to return to Avalonia. June accepts his apologies; she then follows Tony, with whom she has fallen in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-15
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Go West
1925-11-01
Go West
Overview: With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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Watch Your Step
1922-02-16
Watch Your Step
Overview: Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-16
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Why Wild Men Go Wild
1920-08-27
Why Wild Men Go Wild
Overview: Party-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave man, Bobby jumps at the chance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-27
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Carmen, Jr.
1923-08-29
Carmen, Jr.
Overview: A spoof of Bizet's Carmen, showcasing child star Baby Peggy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-29
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The Fighting Parson
1930-02-06
The Fighting Parson
Overview: Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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The Head Guy
1930-01-11
The Head Guy
Overview: Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-11
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Hey There
1918-04-28
Hey There
Overview: In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-28
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Don't Shove
1919-08-31
Don't Shove
Overview: Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Penrod and Sam
1931-10-01
Penrod and Sam
Overview: Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Do You Love Your Wife?
1919-01-05
Do You Love Your Wife?
Overview: Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-05
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Dad's Choice
1928-01-07
Dad's Choice
Overview: Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-07
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Trouble in Paradise
1932-10-30
Trouble in Paradise
Overview: Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-30
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Speedy
1928-04-07
Speedy
Overview: Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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Exit Smiling
1926-11-06
Exit Smiling
Overview: The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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The First Auto
1927-06-27
The First Auto
Overview: The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-27
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Call Her Sausage
1933-05-12
Call Her Sausage
Overview: Ben proves to be the undoing when Billy opens a new deli. Ben and Billy do a variation of the famous "who's on first" skit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-12
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Hit Him Again
1918-02-17
Hit Him Again
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-17
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Fireman Save My Child
1918-05-25
Fireman Save My Child
Overview: In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-25
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The City Slicker
1918-06-02
The City Slicker
Overview: Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-02
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Look Pleasant, Please
1918-03-10
Look Pleasant, Please
Overview: A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Safety Last!
1923-04-01
Safety Last!
Overview: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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New Morals for Old
1932-06-04
New Morals for Old
Overview: Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-04
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One Sunday Afternoon
1933-09-01
One Sunday Afternoon
Overview: Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Coney Island
1928-01-13
Coney Island
Overview: Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by his sweetheart, Joan, and her father, Jingles Wellman, formerly a clown, Burke prepares for a sabotage of his machine by syndicate hirelings. In the midst of a great battle the riot squad arrives to arrest the troublemakers, and Burke and his sweetheart are left in happy possession of their roller coaster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Hustlin' Hank
1923-11-11
Hustlin' Hank
Overview: Hal Roach produced comedy has Will Rogers playing the title character, a rather slow, dimwitted man who works on a ranch where he usually gets pushed around at. A woman (Marie Mosquini) comes to town looking for someone to help her photograph some of the animals so she picks Hank and soon regrets it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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Goldie Gets Along
1933-01-27
Goldie Gets Along
Overview: A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-27
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The Big Shot
1931-12-31
The Big Shot
Overview: A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Loose Ankles
1930-02-02
Loose Ankles
Overview: A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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The Doorway to Hell
1930-10-18
The Doorway to Hell
Overview: A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933-02-03
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Overview: A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Stranger in Town
1931-08-06
Stranger in Town
Overview: Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-06
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The Happy Hottentots
1930-04-22
The Happy Hottentots
Overview: Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-22
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The Freshman
1925-09-20
The Freshman
Overview: Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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The Devil to Pay!
1930-12-18
The Devil to Pay!
Overview: Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-18
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Noah's Ark
1928-11-01
Noah's Ark
Overview: The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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The Petrified Forest
1936-02-08
The Petrified Forest
Overview: Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-08
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A Husband in Haste
1920-05-07
A Husband in Haste
Overview: Jack (Earle Rodney) wants to marry Betty (Helen Darling) but inadvertently offends her parents, who demand “anybody in the world but that whippersnapper!” With the help of an “old time actor friend” (Eddie Barry), he makes his prospective in-laws rue their words.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-07
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Love's Young Scream
1928-05-11
Love's Young Scream
Overview: Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-11
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Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
Movie Crazy
Overview: After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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When a Feller Needs a Friend
1932-04-30
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Overview: A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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A Sammy in Siberia
1919-04-06
A Sammy in Siberia
Overview: A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Teacher's Beau
1935-04-27
Teacher's Beau
Overview: The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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The Lucky Corner
1936-03-14
The Lucky Corner
Overview: The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to move their lemonade stand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-14
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