Vernon Dent
Also Known As: Vernon Bruce Dent, Vernan Dent
Biography: Vernon Bruce Dent (February 16, 1895 – November 5, 1963) was an American comic actor, who appeared in over 400 films. He co-starred in many short films for Columbia Pictures, frequently as the foil and the main antagonist and ally to The Three Stooges.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, USA
Birthday: February 15, 1895
Deathday: November 05, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fuelin' Around
Overview: The Stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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The Cameraman
Overview: A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-10
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Hopping Bells
Overview: The misadventures of a hotel bell hop played by Hank Man
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Road to Hollywood
Overview: Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-04
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The Sound of Laughter
Overview: A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-17
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Feet of Mud
Overview: As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself comes with an "engineering" job with the city. But it's sanitary engineering, and while our street sweeping hero tries his best, he just can't avoid making enemies. When he stumbles into the midst of a lively Chinatown tong war, it's Harry's bravery that saves Natalie and wins the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-06
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Murder at Midnight
Overview: Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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Reformatory
Overview: A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-20
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One Shivery Night
Overview: Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Julius away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-13
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Punchy Cowpunchers
Overview: It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-05
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Mutiny on the Body
Overview: Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and relaxation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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Good Morning, Eve!
Overview: Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden preparing their latest meal. After the meal, they take a stroll through time. They make a few stops along the way for some musical interludes. These stops include in the Gardens of Emperor Nero of Rome for a concert circa 100 A.D., in King Arthur's court, and at a beach resort in current times.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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His Wedding Scare
Overview: El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Night Editor
Overview: A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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The Iceman's Ball
Overview: Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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The Bride's Mistake
Overview: A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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A Close Shave
Overview: An inept window washer becomes an equally inept barber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-23
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Way Out West
Overview: Way Out West silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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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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Smith's Restaurant
Overview: The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-19
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Mystic Mush
Overview: Mystic Mush silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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Slippery Silks
Overview: The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-27
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Wee Wee Monsieur
Overview: The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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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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Back to the Woods
Overview: Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Hot Stuff
Overview: The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Mutts to You
Overview: The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Plain Clothes
Overview: Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-28
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Secret Command
Overview: Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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Hot Sports
Overview: Monte and Vernon go to a society party where they behave like jerks. Monte's pants get torn, the butler keeps getting dunked in a punch bowl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-11
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The Bees' Buzz
Overview: Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-06
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Three Little Sew and Sews
Overview: The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Malice in the Palace
Overview: Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-01
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Sing a Song of Six Pants
Overview: The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-30
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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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Pardon My Berth Marks
Overview: Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Tars and Stripes
Overview: Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer's ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO's girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked in the brig -- but his girlfriend is in there too, so she can be together with her beloved Elmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Overview: Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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From Nurse to Worse
Overview: The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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A Maid Made Mad
Overview: Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and walks out on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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Sappy Birthday
Overview: Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Rip, Sew and Stitch
Overview: The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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Rockin' in the Rockies
Overview: Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Income Tax Sappy
Overview: Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Musty Musketeers
Overview: Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-13
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Pals and Gals
Overview: The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-03
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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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Bedlam in Paradise
Overview: Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's plans in an effort to get through the pearly gates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-14
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Knutzy Knights
Overview: Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Golf
Overview: Comedy on the golf links.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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A Prodigal Bridegroom
Overview: Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensnares him. Ben enjoys being ensnared. In order to get rid of his faithful sweetheart, he schemes up a preposterous tale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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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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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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Hurry, Doctor!
Overview: Hurry, Doctor! is a 1925 comedy short
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Her Actor Friend
Overview: Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Should Husbands Marry?
Overview: Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-13
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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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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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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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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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For Sale, a Bungalow
Overview: For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-30
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San Antonio Rose
Overview: San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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Dream House
Overview: A 2 reel short directed by Mack Sennett and starring Bing Crosby.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-17
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Tassels in the Air
Overview: The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Half Shot Shooters
Overview: The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Crash Goes the Hash
Overview: Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-04
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No Dough Boys
Overview: The Stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on, causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The Stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the boys are exposed as impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Booby Dupes
Overview: The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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Matri-Phony
Overview: The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Idle Roomers
Overview: The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-15
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Three Pests in a Mess
Overview: The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Half-Wits Holiday
Overview: A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-09
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A Bird in the Head
Overview: The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to select Curly as the perfect donor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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Beer Barrel Polecats
Overview: The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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Mummy's Dummies
Overview: Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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Heavenly Daze
Overview: Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-02
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Hokus Pokus
Overview: The Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-05
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Pest Man Wins
Overview: The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Studio Stoops
Overview: The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-05
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Three Arabian Nuts
Overview: The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the "genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-04
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Scrambled Brains
Overview: Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-07
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Listen Judge
Overview: The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-06
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A Missed Fortune
Overview: Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy suite. While they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are pursued by three gold-digging dames after their winnings. When the check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-03
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Booty and the Beast
Overview: The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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Isn't Love Cuckoo?
Overview: An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-22
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Of Cash and Hash
Overview: The Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the Stooges must rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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Flagpole Jitters
Overview: The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-05
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Rumpus in the Harem
Overview: Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the boys to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond. The stooges decide to return the diamond to the government and get the reward money. They learn that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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Knight Duty
Overview: Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-06
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Hooks and Jabs
Overview: Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-24
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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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Tied for Life
Overview: We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo of his bride. Friends serenade Harry outside, but when he goes to the window to join in they douse him with water. As he prepares for his wedding, he looks in the mirror and it shatters. When the groom attempts to run to the church the ring slips out of his hand and is run over by a passing car. As anyone who has seen Harry's 1924 comedy HIS MARRIAGE WOW can guess, the ring sticks to the tire, and Harry must climb on to the car to retrieve it.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-01
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The Hitchhiker
Overview: Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do, when they learn they are stuck flying with "THE HITCHHIKER"?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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The Shadow
Overview: Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds $60,000 of notes signed by the Colonel and due in 24 hours. When a mysterious shadowy figure is seen on the circus lot, and Martinet is murdered in the center ring during his performance, there are suspects aplenty, including Vindecco, Martinet's badly abused hunchback assistant.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Nutty But Nice
Overview: The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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Back from the Front
Overview: The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Sock-a-Bye Baby
Overview: The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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They Stooge to Conga
Overview: The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Cactus Makes Perfect
Overview: The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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I Don't Remember
Overview: Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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The Fainting Lover
Overview: This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. Bert allows as how he'll do something special for her on her birthday coming up next month. The something special ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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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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Special Delivery
Overview: Al is told to deliver a radiophone message to a certain business man. A gang of wicked looking plotters endeavor to capture him and steal the message. A long chase follows and ends with the safe delivery of the message and the arrest of the thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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Beach Pajamas
Overview: Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-21
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Idiots Deluxe
Overview: Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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Shivering Sherlocks
Overview: The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-08
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Busy Buddies
Overview: The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-18
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Higher Than a Kite
Overview: The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-30
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An Ache in Every Stake
Overview: The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Crazy House
Overview: Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Fiddlesticks
Overview: Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-27
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Soldier Man
Overview: After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Saturday Afternoon
Overview: Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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Just a Pain in the Parlor
Overview: Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-25
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A Blonde's Revenge
Overview: Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-19
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The Sheepish Wolf
Overview: Harry entertains a potential advertising client.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-27
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Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Overview: Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kids.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-16
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Dragnet Patrol
Overview: A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-14
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The Freshman's Finish
Overview: At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-20
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A Doggone Mixup
Overview: Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-05
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Sappy Pappy
Overview: Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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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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Midnight Daddies
Overview: Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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A College Racket
Overview: Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has declared off-limits to students. They start to wreck it in their playful mood when another student arrives disguised as the Dean, and they all vacate the premises. The student tells the proprietor that if he will returns the I.O.U.s signed by a student, he will see to it that the students visit his place every night. He, of course, is the student who signed the tab. But the real Dean then shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-14
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Please
Overview: Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please”, “You’re Getting To be A Habit With Me” and “I Don’t Stand A Ghost of a Chance”.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-16
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Adventure in Washington
Overview: A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-29
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Dutiful But Dumb
Overview: The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Smith's Army Life
Overview: 19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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Guns a Poppin!
Overview: Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-13
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The Old Barn
Overview: The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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The All-American Kickback
Overview: Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-29
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The Pride of Pikeville
Overview: Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Saved by the Belle
Overview: The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Overview: Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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A Ducking They Did Go
Overview: The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Even as IOU
Overview: A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Overview: The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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Pardon My Terror
Overview: Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-12
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Out West
Overview: The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-24
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Black Oxfords
Overview: In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-18
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His Marriage Wow
Overview: In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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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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Three Smart Saps
Overview: The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get married and all ends well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-30
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Bachelor Daze
Overview: Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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Hail the Woman
Overview: Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-28
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Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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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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Bull and Sand
Overview: Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. But it is without counting a scientist who has invented a rocket, his assistant who falls down in the yard of Adonis's prison, a great escape featuring Adonis and the assistant disguised as bulls, a second abduction of the Princess - but, this time for the just cause of love -, a wild chase and a final flight to another planet!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-27
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Soul of the Beast
Overview: This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-06
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An Auto Nut
Overview: A crooked lawyer sells his car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Awful Sleuth
Overview: Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on, smiling Memphis Mike.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-18
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Clunked on the Corner
Overview: Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-06
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The Big Flash
Overview: Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at the scene of an expected robbery. But before they can get the pictures they want, they must first distract a policeman whose presence would otherwise deter the gangster from appearing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Thanks for the Memory
Overview: Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Picking Peaches
Overview: A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Overview: Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Hot Dogs
Overview: Born in Russia, vaudeville acrobat Hank Mann acrobat accustomed without efforts towards American film comedy to become a star comic for several studios. Like Ben Turpin, his trademark was a brush moustache, too large, even for comedy standards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-05
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Dangerous Business
Overview: Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-20
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Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Only Angels Have Wings
Overview: A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-15
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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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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Tired Feet
Overview: Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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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 Gum Riot
Overview: The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid the keen eye of an officer of the law, holds a bottle of liquor so that its contents drop into a vat in which the gum is being prepared. It is when the gum is finished and ready to chew that the riot starts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Naughty Nurses
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Overview: Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Broken Bubbles
Overview: A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune teller. He chooses the latter, and gazing into a crystal globe, he is told to follow the horses. He is then shown working around a racing stable, and, of course, rides the heroine's horse to victory. That night they decide to celebrate in a cabaret, where several amusing complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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The Lion and the Souse
Overview: A high-society woman films a vanity film of her dancing with a group of women. The premiere takes an hilariously disastrous turn when a lion gets loose.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-14
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The Fire Chaser
Overview: Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing fire trucks. Fiancee Mae breaks up with him to marry milksop Wilber at her father's insistence. But Eric's butler Simmons is determined to help true love, and arranges for Eric to crash the wedding and win Mae back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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Waiting in the Lurch
Overview: Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-08
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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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Bride and Gloom
Overview: In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-27
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Home on the Rage
Overview: Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Money Squawks
Overview: Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-05
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Mr. Noisy
Overview: This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-22
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Society Mugs
Overview: Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-19
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Overview: Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Nothing But Pleasure
Overview: To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Cold Turkey
Overview: Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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The Taming of the Snood
Overview: A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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The Heckler
Overview: An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Three Little Pirates
Overview: The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
Overview: A documentary short included as an extra with "The Buster Keaton Collection".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-07
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Squareheads of the Round Table
Overview: Set in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-04
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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The Glass Key
Overview: A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-08
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You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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Innocently Guilty
Overview: Through a series of misunderstandings, Bert becomes innocently involved with his boss' wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-21
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
Overview: An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Lucky Stars
Overview: Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-15
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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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Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Overview: Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
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Defective Detectives
Overview: El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-03
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Snooper Service
Overview: Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-03
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Having Wonderful Crime
Overview: Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-03
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Overview: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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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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The Sea of Grass
Overview: On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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A Blitz on the Fritz
Overview: Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-22
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Artist's Muddles
Overview: Andy "Sunshine" Wilson, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, catches a ride with motorist Luckenbach who is on a suicide mission, and nearly succeeds in his mission. Luckenbach is a great portrait artist suffering under the slight handicap of being unable to "do ears." The artist has painted a beautiful portrait of the wife of Pietro Cellini with the exception that her left ear is several times larger than it should be and not painted very well at that. Cellini also holds the keys to the city and Luckenbach getting the job of painting the city hall rides on Cellini's satisfaction with his wife's portrait. Andy accompanies the artist back to his studio, and this short being made in the pre-code days ensures the studio is filled with models wearing a little less than somewhat and less than that in a couple of cases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-29
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To Heir Is Human
Overview: Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-14
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House of Errors
Overview: Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-10
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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His First Flame
Overview: Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-02
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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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San Diego I Love You
Overview: A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Overview: Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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The Lady in Question
Overview: When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-07
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There He Goes
Overview: 1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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Riders of the Purple Cows
Overview: When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-18
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When Spirits Move
Overview: A 1920 Silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Juvenile Court
Overview: Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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The Tooth Will Out
Overview: The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-04
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Lone Star Moonlight
Overview: Returning G.I. Curt Norton (Ken Curtis), owner of a radio station, finds his father Amos (Guy Kibbee) has allowed the station to run down and has squandered Curt's money in bad investments in war-surplus material. Eddie Jackson (Robert Kellard), who owns the rival station, is also attracted to Curt's sweetheart Jean White (Joan Barton). When Curt and the Hoosier Hotshots successfully stage an auction to raise money, Eddie hires Mimi Carston (Claudia Drake) to claim that Curt married her in France.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-12
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Hollywood Trouble
Overview: An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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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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Fiddlers Three
Overview: The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-06
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How High Is Up?
Overview: The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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San Francisco
Overview: A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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Texas Cyclone
Overview: When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-24
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Share the Wealth
Overview: A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Remember When?
Overview: Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-14
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Murder in Greenwich Village
Overview: A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Overview: Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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Girls Will Be Boys
Overview: A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-21
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Million Dollar Legs
Overview: A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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Gents of Leisure
Overview: Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-09
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Time Out for Trouble
Overview: Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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The Mind Needer
Overview: A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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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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What a Trip
Overview: Vernon Dent out fishing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-13
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Howling Hollywood
Overview: A Hollywood satire in slapstick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-21
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Smith's Landlord
Overview: Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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Smith's Cook
Overview: The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest, decides to leave her employment in order to get married. But when Mr Smith and his family set out to drive her across town to her bridegroom, everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-16
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True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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A Star Is Shorn
Overview: Danny Webb plays wanna-be Hollywood agent, Speedy Williams, while Mary Treen plays Patsy, the best friend of Hazel Hackenschmitt (Ethelreda Leopold). Having just won the hometown title of "Miss Maple Syrup", Hazel decides to move to Hollywood to be a star. Speedy cooks up a scheme to get her seen by important Hollywood producer, B.O. Botswaddle (Raymond Brown) who is known to never make a move without Astrological guidance. This scheme involves making up Patsy with turban and a 3rd Eye, and introducing her to Botswaddle as a mystical seer... one, of course, who see's Hazel as the star of his next motion picture. Naturally, things do not go as planned. Treen is especially memorable in a wonderfully goofy role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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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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Address Unknown
Overview: When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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The Good Humor Man
Overview: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Daring Danger
Overview: A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-22
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The Riding Tornado
Overview: Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-04
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Mendelssohn's Wedding March
Overview: This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-04
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The Nickel Snatcher
Overview: Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers to the beach at Venice in California, where the plot becomes involved with a bank robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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All Night Long
Overview: Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-08
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Boobs in the Wood
Overview: Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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J-U-N-K
Overview: A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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Teacher's Pest
Overview: Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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His Bridal Fright
Overview: Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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A Harem Hero
Overview: A Hank Mann Arrow comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-11
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Calling All Doctors
Overview: Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Many Sappy Returns
Overview: Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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A One Mama Man
Overview: Charley Chase on a boat with girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
Overview: When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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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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The Campus Carmen
Overview: A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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