Hank Mann
Also Known As: Hanke Mann, David William Lieberman
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York, U.S.
Birthday: May 27, 1887
Deathday: November 25, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Overview: Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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City Lights
Overview: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Modern Times
Overview: A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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The Male Animal
Overview: The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-12
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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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Caught in a Cabaret
Overview: Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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Herman Hero
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Empty Hands
Overview: Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her out, Endicott sends Claire to the Canadian northwoods, where his field engineer, Grimshaw, is working. While fishing, Claire is swept over the rapids and Grimshaw tries to rescue her. Both of them wind up in a remote gorge, and Grimshaw goes about building a hut as a shelter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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The Donovan Affair
Overview: Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-11
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Lights Out
Overview: Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is filled with scenarios. Its owner, Egbert Winslow, agrees to write a screenplay about the underworld with Sea Bass's help. Sea Bass, seeing a chance to expose a pal who has double-crossed him, describes "High-Shine" Joe and some of his underworld activities. Joe sees the film in a South American theater and recognizes himself. He goes to the motion picture studio determined to kill Egbert Winslow, but bank president Peyton, who has been robbed by Joe, appears simultaneously with the police and saves Winslow.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-12
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Neck and Neck
Overview: Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-03
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The Dawn Trail
Overview: Dissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled there and use the same watering stream. Mart Dalton, son of a wealthy cattleman, quarrels with and kills one of the settlers, thus placing sheriff Larry Williams in a delicate position; for he is Mart's best friend and is engaged to Mart's sister June. However, sworn to do his duty, he arrests Mart, incensing the cattlemen, who help Mart escape, leaving Larry wounded.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-28
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Phantom of the Opera
Overview: Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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Rancho Notorious
Overview: A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-06
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On the Town
Overview: Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Overview: Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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The Cloud Puncher
Overview: It hasn't rained for week and there are no symptoms of coming rain to be found. An itinerant artist carrying a huge canvas rambles along a country road. He reaches the hut of a hermit inventor who is dying of thirst. The artist paints a picture of a reservoir so realistically that the water overflows and fills a cup which he holds in his hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-15
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The Wanters
Overview: Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Overview: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-15
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Chased Into Love
Overview: The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire estate if married by 2 P.M. of a certain date. Hank loves a girl who lives fifty miles away, but his uncle's executor, a lawyer, arranges a marriage with a somewhat antiquated home product. At 1 P.M. on the appointed day, Hank is sleeping off the effects of the night before. He wakens with a fever, a raging thirst, and an awful taste, when the lawyer enters and tells him the bride is waiting. "And my heart is fifty miles away," sadly muses Hank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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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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Mystic Mush
Overview: Mystic Mush silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Stranger from Arizona
Overview: A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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The Man Who Played Square
Overview: Rancher Matt Black is willed half of a Nevada gold mine. Arriving there, he learns that the heir of the other half is a young girl named "Bertie." Realizing that there may be some dirty work and theft going on at the mine, he conceals his identity and gets a job as a miner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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The Arizona Romeo
Overview: To spite her domineering father, Eastern girl Lucy Fox pursues an unsuitable suitor to a small Western hamlet where she obtains a job as a manicurist. A local rancher (Buck Jones), who has fallen for the girl, does his best to persuade her not too marry the bounder.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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The Flying Horseman
Overview: Mark Winton is a wanderer who takes up the cause of a band of ragamuffin's bullied by nasty loan shark Bert Ridley. In between buying the youngsters Boy Scout uniforms, the irrepressible Winton comes to the aid of lovely rancher June Savary , whose father is in financial trouble because of Ridley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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The Stooge
Overview: Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Overview: Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Twenty Minutes of Love
Overview: Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-20
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-10
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Mabel's Married Life
Overview: Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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The Skyrocket
Overview: In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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The Nevadan
Overview: A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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Always in My Heart
Overview: A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-14
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Best of the Badmen
Overview: After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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Cinema Circus
Overview: Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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Are You Listening?
Overview: WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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A Brand New Hero
Overview: A Brand New Hero is a 1914 silent Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-05
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The Big Chance
Overview: Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-28
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Overview: Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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Won in a Closet
Overview: Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-21
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River of No Return
Overview: An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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Keystone Hotel
Overview: The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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The Janitor
Overview: A mild-mannered, well-meaning but bumbling janitor gets unwittingly involved in a battle between two opposing political groups, with each side trying to use him to destroy the other, and the secret police--who have already thrown him out of their office when he worked there--watching all of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-07
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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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One Day in Hollywood
Overview: A couple (Hank Mann and Gale Henry) head to the beach. She spends her time with her friends and he spends time with a group of bathing beauties. Complications arise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-15
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Don't Marry for Money
Overview: Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Overview: Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Bullet Scars
Overview: Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Overview: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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The Gangsters
Overview: An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing and compelled to return to the station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-29
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A Muddy Romance
Overview: Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-19
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Safe in Jail
Overview: Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-07
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Mabel's New Hero
Overview: Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-27
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The Riot
Overview: When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-07
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
Overview: A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-08
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When Dreams Come True
Overview: A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-22
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Overview: Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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A Quiet Little Wedding
Overview: The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-23
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His Sister's Kids
Overview: His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-13
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He Would a Hunting Go
Overview: Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-29
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Fatty's Flirtation
Overview: Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-18
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Fatty Joins the Force
Overview: Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-23
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In the Clutches of the Gang
Overview: In the Clutches of the Gang is a 1914 movie starring Ford Sterling and George Nichols.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-17
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Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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A Bath House Beauty
Overview: Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the bathing beauty has a husband with pistols...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-12
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The Boob
Overview: To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-17
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The Flirts
Overview: Two guys flirt with women at a hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-08
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A Bird's a Bird
Overview: Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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Spite Marriage
Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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You Can't Have Everything
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Almost a Scandal
Overview: A comic one-act film in which affairs of the heart lead to a duel, and a chase. Amorous entanglements between Billy Ritchie and the wife of an overweight man, who himself has been flirting. In a restaurant, this all comes to a denouement that leads to a duel and a chase.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-17
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Josette
Overview: Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Charter Pilot
Overview: US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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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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Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Overview: Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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Frontier Marshal
Overview: Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Overview: Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-07
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Overview: Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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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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Papa's Pest
Overview: A husband wants to slip out of the house to go to a poker game, but his wife catches him, and he is forced to stay at home and mind her sister's baby. Neal goes to the poker game and takes the baby with him, but absentmindedly leaves him there when he goes home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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His Bread and Butter
Overview: After arranging for wifey to land a job as the café's cashier, Mann warns her not to reveal that they're married, lest proprietor Slim Summerville fire them both. The trouble begins when both Summerville and headwaiter Bobby Dunn fall for Pierce, driving Mann into paroxysms of insane jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-15
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Naughty Nurses
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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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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An Eye for Figures
Overview: A Hank Mann Arrow comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-11
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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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Call of the Prairie
Overview: Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Overview: When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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The Maltese Falcon
Overview: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-18
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The Patent Leather Kid
Overview: The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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The Great Dictator
Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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Life with Buster Keaton
Overview: Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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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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The Gusher
Overview: Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. Then the fellow confesses that it was just a scam - there was no oil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-14
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Crime by Night
Overview: A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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It Should Happen to You
Overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Sailor's Luck
Overview: U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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Fazil
Overview: An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-04
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Scarface
Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: American horror comedy from 1920.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Murder in the Big House
Overview: When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-11
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The Better 'Ole
Overview: The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-23
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Smoky
Overview: Rodeo star forms a strong bond with the noble horse he took from the wilds and trained. Unfortunately, they end up on different life paths and are separated. When at last they are reunited, the cowboy is appalled to discover that Smoky has become a broken down cart horse with an appointment at the local abattoir. Fortunately the cowboy intervenes and saves the horse from death
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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Friendly Persuasion
Overview: The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-25
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Ridin' for Justice
Overview: More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-04
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The Arizona Kid
Overview: The Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt (Carole Lombard), accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt (Theodore von Eltz), actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
Genres: Romance Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-23
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Overview: Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Li'l Abner
Overview: Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Irene
Overview: Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-23
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Roaming Romeo
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Whoa, Emma!
Overview: When wild horse Emma (Trixie the Horse) keeps opening the gates and freeing horses, ranch owner Molly (Molly Malone) hires Jimmie (Jimmie Adams) to deal with the problem. When he tames Emma, however, jealous ranch hands tie him up and kidnap Molly, so it's Emma to the rescue!
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Honolulu Lu
Overview: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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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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The Messenger
Overview: Hank Mann in a 1920 comedy, set in a district messenger's office. And even that is a place for slapstick mayhem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-09
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Give Us This Night
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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Fair Warning
Overview: In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Overview: The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-31
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The Sporting Venus
Overview: Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Chatterbox
Overview: Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Not of This Earth
Overview: An agent from a distant planet has been sent to earth to ship large quantities of blood to his world, where a plague is ravaging the populace. He comes equipped with an interstellar matter transmitter, telepathic mind-control powers, and deathray-shooting eyes. Because he is also affected by the blood disease, he gains control of the town's physician and has him place a nurse at his disposal, while he collects live humans for fresh blood; but gains the nurse's suspicions, along with those of her boyfriend - a town police officer.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-10
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The Mysterious Doctor
Overview: The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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Paid to Love
Overview: An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards that end he befriends the country's king and they come up with a scheme to get the Crown Prince married, a prospect not particularly appealing to the Crown Prince--until he sees the beautiful cabaret dancer the pair has picked for him to marry.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-23
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711 Ocean Drive
Overview: A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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Men of the Sky
Overview: A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-25
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Spy Ship
Overview: A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-06
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I Was Framed
Overview: A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Bubbling Troubles
Overview: To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-25
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Steel Against the Sky
Overview: Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-13
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American Spoken Here
Overview: This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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A Film Johnnie
Overview: The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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Pleasure Island
Overview: A Warner Bros Vitaphone short that promoted "Girls...Songs....Laughs." No full print exists but the Library of Congress has acquired one musical sequence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Overview: A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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Morgan's Last Raid
Overview: Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-05
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Father was a Loafer
Overview: A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-02-10
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Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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The Lady and the Bandit
Overview: Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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Escape from Crime
Overview: An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-25
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Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-15
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Sinners' Holiday
Overview: Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-11
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Always Together
Overview: An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Some Like It Hot
Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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Brigadoon
Overview: Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-08
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Meet John Doe
Overview: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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The Perils of Pauline
Overview: Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-04
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Men in Black
Overview: The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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A Place in the Sun
Overview: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Bullets for O'Hara
Overview: A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-19
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Overview: Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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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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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Overview: A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-04
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Flaming Feather
Overview: A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Easy to Get
Overview: In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-07
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Hearts and Sparks
Overview: Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) and starring Gloria Swanson. When Mack Sennett first saw Gloria Swanson, he felt that she would be right as a romantic lead for Bobby Vernon because they were both small in stature. This was their first film together and they proved to be a big hit with the public.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-04
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Sunshine
Overview: A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-06
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Overview: In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
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Daddy-O
Overview: Phil, a part-time truck driver and singer who wears his pants far too high, meets a feisty platinum blonde who challenges him to a drag race through Griffith Park. When he is caught and loses his license, he meets up with the sketchy Frank Wooster who offers him a job singing in his new nightclub. When Phil discovers that his new job also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.
Genres: Crime Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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The Alarm
Overview: A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedy short. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-28
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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One Foot in Heaven
Overview: Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-01
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The High Cost of Loving
Overview: Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-16
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Overview: Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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Their Wives' Vacation
Overview: This Educational Mermaid Talking Comedy features a wrestling/trombone-playing Pert Kelton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-14
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Their Last Haul
Overview: Both crooks, on the pleading of the girl, determine to turn square but with the provision of turning just one more trick. The first could not foresee that the second had placed a time bomb in the safe when he went to rob it. Likewise, the second could not foresee the other was going to pay a visit to the booty after he had planted the explosive. But worse, neither could foresee that a gang of burglars were contemplating carrying off the safe and that there were police loitering nearby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-21
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The Quiet Gun
Overview: A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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Alfalfa's Double
Overview: Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-20
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Baby Blues
Overview: Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a Chinese friend and learn that kids are kids, no matter where they are from.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-15
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There's Many a Fool
Overview: A two part comedy starring Hank Mann and Carmen Phillips, based on the 1909 play A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-19
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The Misadventures of Buster Keaton
Overview: Feature film fashioned from parts of Keaton's short-lived TV series "The Buster Keaton Show."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Me and My Gal
Overview: Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-04
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Should Women Drive?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-26
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