Charles Phillips
Also Known As: Charles Joseph Phillips
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Adult: No
Birthday: October 30, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 25, 1958
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Mr. Wonderful
Overview: A self-taped single camera exploration into the life of Mr. Wonderful; a drug fueled gay convicted felon that believes he is an inspiration to others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-20
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Storm Warning
Overview: A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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The Peppery Salt
Overview: Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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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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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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The Sitter Downers
Overview: The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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Movie Maniacs
Overview: The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-20
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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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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Overview: A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Spies and Guys
Overview: Joe Besser is sent on a spying mission with a beautiful female officer. Things, as usual when Joe is involved, don't go well and they are captured and about to be executed. The girl drops her cape to reveal she is scantily clad (the high point), the enemy is confused and she and Joe escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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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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Drums of Fu Manchu
Overview: The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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The General
Overview: During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Stage Frights
Overview: Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The Naughty Nineties
Overview: In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-20
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The Seventh Victim
Overview: After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-21
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The Twonky
Overview: A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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