Billy Bevan
Also Known As: William Bevan, Bill Bevans, Billy Bevin, Bill Bivin
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris, 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in 254 American films between 1916 and 1950. Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie Bevan. He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912 and later toured Canada. Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916. When the company disbanded, Bevan became a supporting actor in Mack Sennett movie comedies. An expressive pantomimist, Bevan's quiet scene-stealing attracted attention, and by 1922 Bevan was a Sennett star. He supplemented his income, however, by establishing a citrus and avocado farm at Escondido, California. Usually filmed wearing a derby hat and a drooping mustache, Bevan may not have possessed an indelible screen character like Charlie Chaplin but he had a friendly, funny presence in the frantic Sennett comedies. Much of the comedy depended on Bevan's skilled timing and reactions; the famous "oyster" routine performed on film by Curly Howard, Lou Costello, and Huntz Hall—in which a bowl of "fresh oyster stew" shows alarming signs of life and battles the guy trying to eat it—was originated on film decades earlier by Bevan in the short film Wandering Willies. By the mid-1920s Bevan was often teamed with Andy Clyde; Clyde soon graduated to his own starring series. The late 1920s found Bevan playing in wild marital farces for Sennett. The advent of talking pictures took their toll on the careers of many silent stars, including Billy Bevan. Bevan began a second career in "talkies" as a character actor and bit player in roles such as that of a bus driver in the 1929 film High Voltage, a hotel employee in the Mae Murray film Peacock Alley, and the supporting role of Second Lieutenant Trotter in Journey's End in 1930. His starring roles had come to an end, however, and for the next 20 years he often would play rowdy Cockneys (as in Pack Up Your Troubles with The Ritz Brothers), and affable Englishmen (as in Tin Pan Alley and Terror by Night). He played a friendly bus conductor opposite Greer Garson in one of the opening scenes of Mrs. Miniver. Bevan died in 1957 in Escondido, California, just before new audiences discovered him in Robert Youngson's silent-comedy compilations. (The Youngson films mispronounce his name as "Be-VAN"; Bevan himself offered the proper pronunciation in a Voice of Hollywood reel in 1930.)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: September 29, 1887
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 26, 1957
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Rebecca
Overview: Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Bringing Up Baby
Overview: David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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The Secret Of St. Ives
Overview: A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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Terror by Night
Overview: Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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Suspicion
Overview: A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
Overview: When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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Pop's Pal
Overview: A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-21
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The Pearl of Death
Overview: The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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Off His Trolley
Overview: Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-14
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
Genres: History Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Around the Town: British Film Stars and Studios
Overview: The other side of the screen with noted producers and film stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-31
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The Invisible Man Returns
Overview: The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
Overview: A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Payment Deferred
Overview: Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
Overview: The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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Tonight and Every Night
Overview: An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-09
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Journey's End
Overview: In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-09
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Bombs and Bandits
Overview: The Mayor and the Chief of Police have offices in the same building, and are both enamored of the chief's stenographer, Dolly. However, she gives most of her attention to young Sammy, secretary to the Mayor. Approximately, 11 minutes survive from this two-reeler.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-03
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The Lost Patrol
Overview: A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-16
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Gold Digger of Weepah
Overview: Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-02
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The Girl from Everywhere
Overview: Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-11
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The Bicycle Flirt
Overview: Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave Billy, telling her to find a man who is more industrious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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The Girl from Nowhere
Overview: Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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Motorboat Mamas
Overview: Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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Hubby's Weekend Trip
Overview: Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Don't Get Jealous
Overview: Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. Billy, his landlord, offers to take out Carmelita to a cafe and have Wilbur follow them to test his wife's fidelity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-19
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Counter-Espionage
Overview: The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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Cavalcade
Overview: A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-08
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Calling Hubby's Bluff
Overview: Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Pink Pajamas
Overview: Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously jealous. Billy sends his wife some silk pajamas to mollify her, but they're sent to Mrs. Dent by mistake. Billy innocently trying to be helpful is almost caught in the wrong apartment, but a card that accompanied the silkies will fall into the wrong hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-21
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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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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Overview: Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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East of the Water Plug
Overview: East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Overview: A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-27
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From Rags to Britches
Overview: Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Trimmed in Gold
Overview: Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to them and with the shop’s manicurist in tow they run into their customer again who is a crooked gambler winning his money by questionable methods. As he rakes in the pots, an assistant pours the money down a chute which leads to a vault. Billy and Andy, in their explorations, find this vault and think they have discovered a mine. Taking some of the money, they go to the gambler's room and sit in the game. Thus, the money continues to circulate - from the mine to Billy - from Billy to the gambler - and down the chute again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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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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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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Pitfalls of a Big City
Overview: Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-02
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Inbad the Sailor
Overview: Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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One Spooky Night
Overview: One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-27
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Wandering Waistlines
Overview: The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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The Cannon Ball Express
Overview: Fun develops after a feud between a railroad president and a promoter, and takes the form of a race between the pathetic train and an auto bus sponsored by the promoter. There is dirty work at the cross-roads but the villain gets his.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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The Crossroads of New York
Overview: A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-22
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Little Robinson Corkscrew
Overview: Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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Sneezing Beezers
Overview: An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be crowned if he returns to Necko-Shavia and hires a taxi driver to take him there. It all turns out to be a ploy by villains to get them back to the snow-covered country. When the villains kidnap the princess and attempt a getaway in their airplane taxi driver Billy daringly negotiates a high jump on his skis and overtakes the plane in mid-air, thus affecting a thrilling rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-19
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Over Thereabouts
Overview: Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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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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Cured in the Excitement
Overview: Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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The Bull Fighter
Overview: The Bull Fighter is a 1927 short comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-27
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Weak But Willing
Overview: Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, including a seductive Jean Harlow who tries to pick him up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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God's Country and the Woman
Overview: Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-16
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Pirates of the Air
Overview: The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-28
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Luxury Liner
Overview: This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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His New Stenographer
Overview: Billy Brooks, a lawyer, sets out to get a divorce for a client by framing him in a compromising situation. But the scheme goes askew when the client's wife gets a job as Billy's new stenographer and he, not knowing who she is, selects her as the correspondent to frame her own husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-30
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High Voltage
Overview: A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-29
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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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Butter Fingers
Overview: The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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Vanity Fair
Overview: An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-15
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Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
Overview: A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the instructor, not knowing who he is, shows her picture around the table. This prompts a round-table discussion in which none of the standard rules for civility is part of the discussion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-08
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The Best Man
Overview: A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-08
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The Beach Club
Overview: In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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Piccadilly Jim
Overview: Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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Sky Devils
Overview: Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Overview: Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Limehouse Blues
Overview: Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-11
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Overview: An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Stingaree
Overview: A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
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Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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Hoboken to Hollywood
Overview: Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood office. He is going to drive there with his wife and mother. Along the way, they encounter Mr. Pinkney and his new bride, who too are heading west. Their misadventures together and meeting up with a band of marauding Indians may prevent any of them from reaching their intended destination. If Billy and Mr. Pinkney ever make it to Hollywood, they're both in a for a big surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Lizzies of the Field
Overview: There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-07
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Flirty Four-Flushers
Overview: With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Masked Mamas
Overview: A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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Be Reasonable
Overview: Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collection agents either want Billy to pay for this necklace or return it. Well, she naturally doesn't want to give up the pearls, so Billy decides to break in to her house to steal them (and a few other items while he's at it).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Astray from the Steerage
Overview: While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-23
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Mystery Woman
Overview: A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-08
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The Sky Hawk
Overview: Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-29
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Whispering Whiskers
Overview: Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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The Wrong Road
Overview: A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-11
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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The Hollywood Kid
Overview: A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-19
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Who's Who in the Zoo
Overview: Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing for an exam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-11
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Scotch
Overview: Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-19
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Shining Victory
Overview: In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Peacock Alley
Overview: Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-04
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Too Much Harmony
Overview: A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Shadows Over Shanghai
Overview: A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Galloping Bungalows
Overview: All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Circus Today
Overview: Two circus hands create chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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Looking Forward
Overview: Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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Hans Christian Andersen
Overview: A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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A Sea Dog's Tale
Overview: An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-11
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Ice Cold Cocos
Overview: Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Black Sheep
Overview: On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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Private Number
Overview: Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Moss Rose
Overview: When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-30
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Gymnasium Jim
Overview: Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-09
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The Extra Girl
Overview: Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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Bright Eyes
Overview: An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-24
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Love and Doughnuts
Overview: Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-14
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Easy Pickings
Overview: Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Peter's cousin. Knowing that Dolores is dead, Stewart, who catches Mary Ryan burglarizing the Van Horne home, induces her to pose as Dolores.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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Penny Serenade
Overview: Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-24
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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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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Somebody's Widow
Overview: A comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-29
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Blond Cheat
Overview: Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Born to Love
Overview: A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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Let Freedom Ring
Overview: A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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We Are Not Alone
Overview: A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-25
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The Big Squeal
Overview: Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-09
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The Swordsman
Overview: Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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When Summer Comes
Overview: Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-22
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On Patrol
Overview: Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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Wall Street Blues
Overview: A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-09
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One Cylinder Love
Overview: A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Duck Hunter
Overview: A 1922 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-13
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Her Rustic Romeo
Overview: A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-28
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Three Foolish Weeks
Overview: A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way with her. She's actually the queen traveling incognito, which the loyal residents recognize. The cross-eyed baron keeps getting caught trying to get into the queen-then the inn keeper's wife's bedroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-13
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It Had to Be You
Overview: A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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The Sheik Steps Out
Overview: In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-05
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Transatlantic
Overview: As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-19
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Confirm or Deny
Overview: Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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Riley the Cop
Overview: In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-25
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Another Dawn
Overview: Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-26
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Shock
Overview: Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-19
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The Earl of Chicago
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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The Lodger
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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London Blackout Murders
Overview: A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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The Golf Nut
Overview: Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
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The Black Arrow
Overview: A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
Genres: Action Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Overview: The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Peg o' My Heart
Overview: Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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Thundering Taxis
Overview: Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Overview: The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Tin Pan Alley
Overview: Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Silent Witness
Overview: A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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The Long Voyage Home
Overview: The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-16
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She Whoops To Conquer
Overview: Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Last Outpost
Overview: During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
Genres: Romance Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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Nip and Tuck
Overview: Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-11
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Temptation
Overview: Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan and Eileen Percy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-05
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Forever and a Day
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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Me and My Gal
Overview: Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-04
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Personal Property
Overview: Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-19
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Captain Fury
Overview: An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Monte Carlo
Overview: A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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Uncle Jake
Overview:
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-04
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The Trespasser
Overview: A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-11
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Giddap!
Overview: Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-22
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The Young in Heart
Overview: A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-06
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National Velvet
Overview: Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-26
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Honeymoon Beach
Overview: Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of Ma's intentions, as is Blondie who has plans of her own regarding Billy. The laughs here are only slightly less scarce than the chicken in the boarding house chicken-and-dumplings in "True Grit."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-22
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Song and Dance Man
Overview: Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-11
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The White Sin
Overview: Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Overview: Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-03
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A Small Town Idol
Overview: Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-13
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The Quack Doctor
Overview: In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-04
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The Return of the Vampire
Overview: In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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Cupid In Quarantine
Overview: Eleanor Field and Cullen Landis are in love, but her father, Billy Bevan, objects because.... hey this is a one-reel comedy and we don't have time for things like that. After he sneaks past Bevan, the young couple decide to force the issue. The pastor next door has small pox, so they paint marks on each other's face. Bevan catches on and with the aid of a cooperative beat officer, he does his best to scare them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-10
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The Lion's Whiskers
Overview: Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a building. This stunt is funny and rather realistic. Second, Billy looks in a keyhole at what he THINKS is a lady taking a bath--and she's soon joined by a man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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The Iron Nag
Overview: A jail break turns into a race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-09
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Honeymoon Hardships
Overview: A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple are forced to sleep apart,The beds are rock hard, the food is inedible,and the farmhouse leaks in the middle of a fierce rainstorm. On top of everything else, a hick uncle with a large family pay a sudden visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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His Unlucky Night
Overview: Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-12
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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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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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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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Chances
Overview: Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-18
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Let's Live a Little
Overview: A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-09
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Overview: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-19
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Lloyd's of London
Overview: Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Three Secrets
Overview: A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Waterloo Bridge
Overview: In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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One More River
Overview: A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-06
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Overview: Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
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The Secret Garden
Overview: When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-30
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This Above All
Overview: In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-12
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Devotion
Overview: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
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The Way to Love
Overview: Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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For the Love o' Lil
Overview: Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-29
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Tell It to the Judge
Overview: Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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A Study in Scarlet
Overview: In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-14
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30 Years of Fun
Overview: Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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Techno-Crazy
Overview: TECHNO-CRAZY has to be one of the strangest comedy shorts of the 1930's. Starring Monte Collins as a young man who dreams of technological progress in society bringing a "technocracy" that's a utopia and Billy Bevan as the Mayor, whose daughter Collins wants to marry, the short begins with a dream sequence where Collins is running a factory on his own and explaining to someone how no one needs to work in this new utopia and everything operates automatically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-12
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Cluny Brown
Overview: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-02
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Distilled Love
Overview: Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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