Otto Fries
Also Known As: Otto H. Fries, Otto Fried, Otto Hugo Fries
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 27, 1887
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 15, 1938
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Move Along
Overview: Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best, gag-filled 20s comedy style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-24
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The Broncho Twister
Overview: Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Overview: A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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Rumors for Rent
Overview: The story of Helen and Warren's marriage from courtship to parenthood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Land of the Lawless
Overview: A Texas Ranger insinuates himself into a murderous gang by showing off his talents. When he is taken prisoner by the ringleader, he makes a getaway and returns with a sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-25
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Overview: Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Moonshine
Overview: A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-26
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Call of the Cuckoo
Overview: Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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Bang!
Overview: Bang! is a 1921 silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-27
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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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Motor Mad
Overview: A Mermaid Comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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Railroadin'
Overview: The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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The Paperhangers' Revenge
Overview: Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-30
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The Best Man Wins
Overview: A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-14
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of "Mermaid" comedies Conley made for Educational and Jack White, is African-American character actor Spencer Bell. The chase in reel two lifts a number of gags from Buster Keaton films.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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The First Seven Years
Overview: Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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Family Life
Overview: The Duff family can't seem to get along with their neighbors, an obsessed policeman and his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-29
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Taxi for Two
Overview: Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan is asked by the boss to drive Dolly to the taxi depot, Dan believes he can make his millions instead by buying a cab and starting his own taxi company. Interactions with Dolly's visiting brother - a hosiery salesman - who Dan mistakenly believes is Dolly's boyfriend, a pair of inflatable legs, and an angry foreman who was fired because of Dan's mistakes in the garage lead to one misadventure after another for Dan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-02
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Expensive Husbands
Overview: Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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The Old Bull
Overview: Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-04
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On the Loose
Overview: Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Alum and Eve
Overview: When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-24
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-27
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High Flyers
Overview: Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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Here Comes the Band
Overview: In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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The Younger Generation
Overview: Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-04
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All Wet
Overview: A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-02
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Free and Easy
Overview: Campers on a vacation have all the comforts of home fitted into their Ford car. Eggs are fried on the hot engine, and coffee is percolated in the radiator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Time Flies
Overview: The short starts with a duel in the Old South wherein a man inadvertently saves one of the duelist's lives for which he is given a watch. Years pass and we next see the grandson, impoverished and heading to the big city for work (taking the watch with him). His ma gives him a pigeon in case he wants to send a message back home. The watch is the key to getting a fortune and a vamp and her cohort want it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-07
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Espionage
Overview: Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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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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Car Shy
Overview: Car thieves are running rampant in the city and it's up to Reginald Van Bibber to save the day. In spite of himself of course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-03
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Overview: A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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The Burglar
Overview: A man, accidentally locked out of his house is mistaken for a burglar as he attempts to re-enter the house. The gag is that the person mistaking him, is an actual burglar thinking the man to be a rival to his score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-12
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Sons o' Guns
Overview: Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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The Merry Widow
Overview: A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Fair Warning
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-26
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Surrender
Overview: Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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Readin' and Writin'
Overview: Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Little Daddy
Overview: Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Waltzing Around
Overview: Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of the fighters, and must take his place, with his partner acting as referee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-13
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A Night at the Opera
Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Night of June 13
Overview: Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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Skybound
Overview: Comedy starring one of the most prolific but underrated comedians of the silent era, Al St John.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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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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Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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Human Cargo
Overview: Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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April Fool
Overview: Sent as a missionary to cannibals, Lloyd Hamilton boards a ship, but encounters many problems along the voyage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
Overview: A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Overview: Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-24
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Maid in Morocco
Overview: Lupino and his wife Helen are honeymooning in Morocco and the local Caliph wants to add Helen to his harem. Lupino saves her, loses her again and saves her again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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Haunted at Midnight
Overview: Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When Stan's rich uncle Ebeneezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebeneezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-21
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The Mystery Man
Overview: Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-12
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The Mad Miss Manton
Overview: When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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The Tin Ghost
Overview: Lige Conley is a newspaper reporter covering a demonstration of a new invention to some money-men. The inventors boss wants to get the credit for the device and crosses the wires so that it doesn't work right. Lige's sweetheart is the daughter of the inventor, and Lige sets out to help out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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The Weak-End Party
Overview: A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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The Handy Man
Overview: A 1923 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-12
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The Simp
Overview: A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-23
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The Kid from Borneo
Overview: The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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Choo-Choo!
Overview: The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-07
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Overview: Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Who Hit Me?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-11
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Who's My Wife?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Flaming Romance
Overview: The worthless son of a rich man spends most of his time in jail. His father throws a pen at a map telling him wherever the pen sticks he must go and make his fortune. The pen lands on the kingdom of Guatamazela. He arrives and is attracted by a pretty girl, who turns out to be the Princess. A revolution breaks out and Al takes refuge in the room of the Princess. When he hears men coming he dons her clothes. But the revolutionists succeed and come to hang the Princess. His identity is discovered when the Palace Guards see him, and thinking he is the Princess, rescue him. The captain recognizes him and wants to shoot him. He finally eludes them all, rescues the Princess and all is well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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