Slim Summerville
Biography: Slim Summerville (born George Joseph Somerville; July 10, 1892 – January 5, 1946) was an American film actor and director best known for his work in comedies.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 09, 1892
Deathday: January 05, 1946
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Known For
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-04-29
All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-29
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Dough and Dynamite
1914-10-26
Dough and Dynamite
Overview: Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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Mabel's Busy Day
1914-06-13
Mabel's Busy Day
Overview: Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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Laughing Gas
1914-07-09
Laughing Gas
Overview: Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-09
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Free Love
1930-12-01
Free Love
Overview: A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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Charlie Chan in Reno
1939-06-16
Charlie Chan in Reno
Overview: Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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The Denver Dude
1927-02-13
The Denver Dude
Overview: A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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The Front Page
1931-04-04
The Front Page
Overview: Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Western Union
1941-02-21
Western Union
Overview: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Jesse James
1939-01-14
Jesse James
Overview: After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-14
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938-03-18
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Tiger Rose
1929-12-21
Tiger Rose
Overview: A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-21
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A Dog Catcher's Love
1917-06-24
A Dog Catcher's Love
Overview: The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck with women borders on the fantastic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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Highway West
1941-08-07
Highway West
Overview: A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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Tobacco Road
1941-02-20
Tobacco Road
Overview: Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Soldiers of Misfortune
1914-07-27
Soldiers of Misfortune
Overview: Soldiers of Misfortune
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-27
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Those Country Kids
1914-08-19
Those Country Kids
Overview: Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-19
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The Anglers
1914-10-12
The Anglers
Overview: The Anglers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
1914-10-24
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Overview: Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-24
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The Plumber
1914-12-09
The Plumber
Overview: This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues will not hold many surprises for those familiar with Keystone in this period, or, indeed, with the works of the Three Stooges, who often played inept plumbers. It is, nonetheless, very nicely performed, especially by Charles Murray who mugs it up freely and ineptly, as well as the pretty girl who plays the house's maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-09
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Only a Farmer's Daughter
1915-01-09
Only a Farmer's Daughter
Overview: Only a Farmer's Daughter
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-09
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Droppington's Devilish Deed
1915-04-05
Droppington's Devilish Deed
Overview: Droppington's Devilish Deed
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-05
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Their Fatal Bumping
1914-12-24
Their Fatal Bumping
Overview: A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-24
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The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Captain January
1936-04-17
Captain January
Overview: A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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Air Mail
1932-11-03
Air Mail
Overview: A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-03
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Gold Rush Maisie
1940-07-26
Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Anne of Windy Poplars
1940-06-28
Anne of Windy Poplars
Overview: Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Painted Ponies
1927-09-25
Painted Ponies
Overview: A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Riding for Fame
1929-08-19
Riding for Fame
Overview: A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his boss. He has to clear his name and find the real thieves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-19
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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
1927-04-03
Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Overview: A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by a series of mystifying occurrences, and their relationship ultimately develops into a feud.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-03
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Fatty's New Role
1915-02-01
Fatty's New Role
Overview: Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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The Road Back
1937-06-01
The Road Back
Overview: After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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Love and Bullets
1914-07-04
Love and Bullets
Overview: Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-04
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Those Happy Days
1914-07-23
Those Happy Days
Overview: Those Happy Days is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-23
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A Rowboat Romance
1914-07-06
A Rowboat Romance
Overview: A Rowboat Romance is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-06
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Niagara Falls
1941-10-17
Niagara Falls
Overview: The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
1915-12-15
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Overview: Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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Her Painted Hero
1915-11-20
Her Painted Hero
Overview: A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-20
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Reckless Living
1931-10-20
Reckless Living
Overview: In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-20
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935-07-05
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Their Social Splash
1915-04-26
Their Social Splash
Overview: Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-26
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Henry Goes Arizona
1939-12-08
Henry Goes Arizona
Overview: A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Genres: Drama Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Oh, What a Kick!
1927-02-07
Oh, What a Kick!
Overview: Slim Summerville and Dick Sutherland fight over the pretty French girl. Then Summerville is is volunteered into No Man's Land, equipped with a pigeon in a cage, an alarm clock, and Fanny the Mule.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-07
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Five of a Kind
1938-10-14
Five of a Kind
Overview: Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Life Begins at Forty
1935-03-22
Life Begins at Forty
Overview: A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Uncle Joe
1941-10-18
Uncle Joe
Overview: A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-18
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Way Down East
1935-10-25
Way Down East
Overview: A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Kentucky Moonshine
1938-05-20
Kentucky Moonshine
Overview: The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Lover's Luck
1914-09-15
Lover's Luck
Overview: A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-15
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Submarine Patrol
1938-11-25
Submarine Patrol
Overview: A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Bride by Mistake
1944-07-26
Bride by Mistake
Overview: The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-26
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Troopers Three
1930-02-23
Troopers Three
Overview: Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best. When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-23
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The Valley of Vanishing Men
1942-12-17
The Valley of Vanishing Men
Overview: Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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Her First Mate
1933-08-03
Her First Mate
Overview: A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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The Beloved Rogue
1927-03-12
The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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I'm from Arkansas
1944-10-31
I'm from Arkansas
Overview: A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-31
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The Country Doctor
1936-03-12
The Country Doctor
Overview: A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Saved by Wireless
1915-11-21
Saved by Wireless
Overview: Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up headquarters in an underground refuge from which they direct their operations. They are engaged in an effort to steal a valuable code book from Prime Minister Cogley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-21
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See America Thirst
1930-11-23
See America Thirst
Overview: Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-23
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Her First Kiss
1919-08-30
Her First Kiss
Overview: Her First Kiss, where the glamorous Ethel Teare trades her fancy gowns for the rough attire of Minnie Spuds, the gawky farm girl who Chester tries to swindle. Whether dangling from a ladder, teetering over a cliff in a horse-and-buggy, or wielding a mop, Minnie may be from the sticks but never misses a beat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Project, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2013.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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A Bedroom Blunder
1917-10-07
A Bedroom Blunder
Overview: A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-07
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Horse Play
1933-06-01
Horse Play
Overview: Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Bachelor Daze
1944-02-17
Bachelor Daze
Overview: Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
1933-10-01
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Overview: A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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White Fang
1936-07-17
White Fang
Overview: A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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Reunion
1936-11-20
Reunion
Overview: Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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A Bird's a Bird
1915-02-08
A Bird's a Bird
Overview: Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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Gussle's Day of Rest
1915-03-29
Gussle's Day of Rest
Overview: The disgraceful Reggie Gussle spends a day at the park with his hated wife while trying to steal a lovely girl from her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-29
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Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914-12-12
Ambrose's First Falsehood
Overview: After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-12
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Cinders of Love
1916-02-26
Cinders of Love
Overview: Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-26
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Sailor's Holiday
1929-09-14
Sailor's Holiday
Overview: Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Under Montana Skies
1930-09-09
Under Montana Skies
Overview: Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-09
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Caught in the Rain
1914-05-04
Caught in the Rain
Overview: When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-04
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Gentlemen of Nerve
1914-10-29
Gentlemen of Nerve
Overview: Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-29
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Those Love Pangs
1914-10-10
Those Love Pangs
Overview: Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-10
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914-12-21
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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The Knockout
1914-06-11
The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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The Property Man
1914-08-01
The Property Man
Overview: Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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Leading Lizzie Astray
1914-11-30
Leading Lizzie Astray
Overview: A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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That Little Band Of Gold
1915-03-14
That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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Out All Night
1933-04-08
Out All Night
Overview: A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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Heaven on Earth
1931-11-27
Heaven on Earth
Overview: A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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We! We! Marie!
1930-10-28
We! We! Marie!
Overview: In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly hate.Both have fallen for the same girl, and Slim seemingly can't compete when Gribbon gives her fancy lingerie. Gribbon has no problem belting Slim around, and giving him extended latrine-digging duties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-28
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King of Jazz
1930-04-20
King of Jazz
Overview: Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Their Big Moment
1934-08-17
Their Big Moment
Overview: Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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Swing in the Saddle
1944-07-30
Swing in the Saddle
Overview: In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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Miss Polly
1941-11-14
Miss Polly
Overview: A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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The Chinese Parrot
1927-10-23
The Chinese Parrot
Overview: The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Hello, 'Frisco
1924-09-28
Hello, 'Frisco
Overview: A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Texas Streak
1926-09-26
The Texas Streak
Overview: Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
Genres: Comedy Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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His Bread and Butter
1916-04-15
His Bread and Butter
Overview: After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that they're married, lest proprietor Slim Summerville fire them both. The trouble begins when both Summerville and headwaiter Bobby Dunn fall for Pierce, driving Mann into paroxysms of insane jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-15
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The Snow Cure
1916-04-22
The Snow Cure
Overview: The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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A Schoolhouse Scandal
1919-12-07
A Schoolhouse Scandal
Overview: A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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Villa of the Movies
1917-03-04
Villa of the Movies
Overview: Here's a rare 1917 Triangle Keystone, co-starring Slim Summerville, with whom Bobby Dunn would co-star again with later, both with Fox Sunshine comedies in 1920 and a series for Universal in 1924. Glen Cavender also features...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-04
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Caught in a Park
1915-02-06
Caught in a Park
Overview: Featuring Charlie Chaplin's half-brother as The Husband, Phyllis Allen as The Wife, Slim Summerville as The Boy Friend, Cecile Arnold as The Girl Friend, and Mack Swain as The Bartender.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-06
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Puddin' Head
1941-06-25
Puddin' Head
Overview: On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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Sing Me a Song of Texas
1945-02-08
Sing Me a Song of Texas
Overview: The two nieces of the deceased Charley Bronson arrive to learn that an unknown judge will determine which one of them will inherit his ranch. But Bronson is still alive and posing as the cook. Hilda learns of this and sets out to use this information to win the ranch from her cousin Laurie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-08
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Pepper
1936-08-08
Pepper
Overview: Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-08
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Winner Take All
1939-03-29
Winner Take All
Overview: When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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The Spoilers
1930-09-20
The Spoilers
Overview: On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and disquiets her by his primitive nature. He arrives to find his partners, Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry, befuddled by a trio of no-gooders: Voorhees, the U. S. marshal, Judge Stillman, and McNamara, a politician. Their racket is to cloud title to the various mine claims, eject the miners, and make McNamara owner of the disputed properties.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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Tom Brown of Culver
1932-06-30
Tom Brown of Culver
Overview: Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-30
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Love Birds
1934-05-04
Love Birds
Overview: ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Love Is News
1937-02-26
Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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The Bad Sister
1931-03-29
The Bad Sister
Overview: Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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Strong Boy
1929-03-03
Strong Boy
Overview: "Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-03
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One Hysterical Night
1929-10-05
One Hysterical Night
Overview: The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
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Fatty's Magic Pants
1914-12-13
Fatty's Magic Pants
Overview: 'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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Garden of Eatin'
1943-10-22
Garden of Eatin'
Overview: After being falsely accused of kidnapping, Slim is thrown in jail. His troubles get worse when a lynch mob starts forming outside the jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-22
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Her Man
1930-09-21
Her Man
Overview: A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Little Accident
1930-08-03
Little Accident
Overview: On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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The Last Warning
1928-12-25
The Last Warning
Overview: A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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Fifty Roads to Town
1937-06-03
Fifty Roads to Town
Overview: A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-03
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The Home Breakers
1915-02-01
The Home Breakers
Overview: Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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His Hidden Purpose
1918-01-27
His Hidden Purpose
Overview: The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow. There is a genuinely funny scene where Marie is disguised as a man to go meet her boyfriend disguised as a widow, and slapstick happens which results in Chester being found in his underpants with the widow in a barn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-27
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Cursed by His Beauty
1914-10-31
Cursed by His Beauty
Overview: Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-31
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A Peaceful Riot
1925-12-13
A Peaceful Riot
Overview: Sailor Slim Summerville saves a lady from nasty men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943-01-01
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Overview: This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Racing Youth
1932-01-26
Racing Youth
Overview: A young man is mistaken for his boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-26
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Are Waitresses Safe?
1917-11-18
Are Waitresses Safe?
Overview: Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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King of the Rodeo
1929-01-06
King of the Rodeo
Overview: A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-06
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They Just Had to Get Married
1933-01-05
They Just Had to Get Married
Overview: Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-05
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It Pays to Exercise
1918-02-24
It Pays to Exercise
Overview: short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-24
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Up the River
1938-12-09
Up the River
Overview: A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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The Rivals
1923-12-31
The Rivals
Overview: A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Ralston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-31
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Off to the Races
1937-02-05
Off to the Races
Overview: The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Can This Be Dixie?
1936-11-13
Can This Be Dixie?
Overview: A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Many a Slip
1931-03-02
Many a Slip
Overview: Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-02
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Case Dismissed
1924-05-26
Case Dismissed
Overview: Slim appears as a police court judge and Bobby as one of the jurors who is later given a job as bailiff. The reel deals with three or four different cases that come up, one a female bootlegger, the other a diminutive man charged with beating his big wife; another raises the question of whether a mule is gentle, and Bobby is called on to ride him. The last charge is against a wild man who escapes, taking Bobby along as he is chained to him. A train runs over the chain and the two drop from the trestle into the police auto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-26
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The Unexpected Father
1932-01-03
The Unexpected Father
Overview: A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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The Kitchen Lady
1918-01-13
The Kitchen Lady
Overview: Louise is sentimentally inclined, but her passion is unrequited. She loves the landlady's long, handsome son Slim best, and next to him Glen the lion tamer. Both these gentlemen, sadly enough, love Alice, the pretty star boarder. But things change when it is rumored that Louise is to be an heiress, Both the triflers declare their affection and things seem to be looking up for Louise. This is too good to last, however, and before long she is sent back to the kitchen in a hurry--alone and unloved. But at last she does get the money, then has the satisfaction of spurning both her recreant lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-13
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Lasca of the Rio Grande
1931-12-01
Lasca of the Rio Grande
Overview: A Texas Ranger who loves a dance hall girl must bring her in when she is charged with murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-01
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