Bobby Burns
Also Known As: Robert Paul Burns, Robert P. Burns, Robert Burns, Robert Bunrs
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: August 31, 1878
Deathday: January 16, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Jail Bait
Overview: Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Shakedown
Overview: A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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Hold Your Temper
Overview: The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Honeymoon Bridge
Overview: His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-02
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Pop Goes the Easel
Overview: The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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A Pain in the Pullman
Overview: The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-27
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Dizzy Doctors
Overview: The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-19
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Ball Bearing, But Hard Running
Overview: A previously lost short also known as His Nimble Twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-02-29
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Am I Having Fun!
Overview: Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-17
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A Pair of Skins
Overview: A comedy involving tiger skins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-17
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Lazy Days
Overview: While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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I'll Never Heil Again
Overview: The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-04
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Ants in the Pantry
Overview: The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-06
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Loco Boy Makes Good
Overview: After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-08
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Three Little Pigskins
Overview: The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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Gents Without Cents
Overview: The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Restless Knights
Overview: Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-20
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Disorder in the Court
Overview: The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-30
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Air Raid Wardens
Overview: Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-04
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The Wrong Hand Bag
Overview: Mrs. Hanson reminds hubby that it is her birthday as he is about to leave for his office. On the way he stops in a jewelry store, and purchases for her a silver mesh bag, which he sends home by a messenger. When Mrs. Hanson receives the bag she cannot resist the temptation to show it to her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Jones, who at once becomes jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-04
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Show Business
Overview: The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-20
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Slightly Married
Overview: Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Red Noses
Overview: Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Below Zero
Overview: Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Speed Limited
Overview: A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Giftgas
Overview: Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-13
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The Body Snatcher
Overview: Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-25
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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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Top Flat
Overview: When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-21
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Sneak Easily
Overview: Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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Slightly Static
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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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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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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The Curtain Falls
Overview: In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Overview: The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-08
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Cheating Blondes
Overview: A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-01
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Stanley and Livingstone
Overview: When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Sue My Lawyer
Overview: Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-15
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The Good Bad Egg
Overview: In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-20
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Off Again, On Again
Overview: Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-16
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Sister Kenny
Overview: An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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My Old Kentucky Home
Overview: Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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A Visit to Lively Town
Overview: Two hicks take a trip to Atlantic City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-24
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Counsel on De Fence
Overview: New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-24
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His Marriage Mix-up
Overview: Harry's fiance is the exact double of an escaped axe murderess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-30
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Helpmates
Overview: Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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Them Thar Hills
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-21
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The Dancing Millionaire
Overview: The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Willie, the Hunter
Overview: A comedy about Willem, who goes out hunting; his friends decide to scare a him with a bear suit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-24
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Fixing a Flirt
Overview: Instead of paying his landlady, a man invites a seamstress out for dinner. To tease him her colleagues appear uninvited at the restaurant. When the bill comes it is huge and costs the man all of his money, his watch and other belongings, while the seamstress doesn't even want him to walk her home. He goes home penniless and his landlady does not let him in: he has to sleep outside.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-01
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This Land Is Mine
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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Any Old Port!
Overview: Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-05
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Ups and Downs
Overview: Shifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs' window. Instead, Pokes blows himself up.
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Original Language: en
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Mr. Bride
Overview: Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Overview: Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Dummy Ache
Overview: Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Comin' Round the Mountain
Overview: A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Scared Silly
Overview: The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Overview: In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-28
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Grandpa's Boy
Overview: Big Boy's grandfather is ordered by the authorities to provide a home for Big Boy, so he sends his butler to get him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Deviled Crabs
Overview: Hallucinations abound after eating Deviled Crabs with Pokes & Jabs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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Three Tough Onions
Overview: In-laws make life unbearable for Monty (Review from Selectd Motion Pictures journal)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-20
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The Thirteenth Guest
Overview: Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-09
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Behind the Footlights
Overview: Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-24
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Before the Show
Overview: The small town vaudeville manager, before the afternoon performance, discovers his property man has quit without notice, so is compelled to hire one of the hangers-on, Slippery Pokes
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-29
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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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Out Bound
Overview: Mortimer grabs an opportunity to take a truck driving job; Matthew intends to hang onto it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-11
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His Bridal Sweet
Overview: Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-14
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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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