Kewpie Morgan
Also Known As: Horace Allen Morgan, Horace Morgan, Horace A. Morgan, Horace 'Kewpie' Morgan, Allen Morgan, Cupid Morgan, H.A. Morgan, Horace Allen "Kewpie" Morgan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anna, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 31, 1892
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 24, 1956
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Three Ages
Overview: The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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Drag Harlan
Overview: William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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Wanted- A Home
Overview: Mina Rogers (Mary MacLaren) is unfairly cast out into the cruel, cruel world by her crotchety old uncle. She searches for a new home, resorting to deception so that she will be taken in. Along the way she meets a doctor, certain mysteries surrounding her are solved, and the doctor asks her to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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Hell-Roarin' Reform
Overview: Tom Mix plays Tim, a goodhearted cowpuncher who, while riding down a trail, gets robbed of the money he was carrying for the Belgian Babies' Milk Fund.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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The Border Legion
Overview: Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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A Capable Lady Cook
Overview: Hubby can't stand his wife's cooking and he goes to the employment agency and gets Sweedy as a new cook. They arrive home and dinner is about to be served. Sweedy never reaches the table, however, for her foot slips and the expected dinner flies away. Sweedy then starts to clean house, but she gets in wrong by raising clouds of dust. Sweedy now starts to do more cooking, but gets a note from the iceman saying he will meet her on the comer and go for a lark. Sweedy takes the wife's new gown and goes to keep the appointment. Hubby discovers the note, thinks his wife is false, follows and brings Sweedy home, where, in the parlor, he protests against such treatment and declares his love in hot terms, which is overheard by the wife. She steps in and the astonished husband discovers his terrible mistake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-17
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A Beach Nut
Overview: A Beach Nut
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-24
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Say Ah-h!
Overview: Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and turns that foil his every attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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Beggars of Life
Overview: After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
Genres: Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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Musclebound Music
Overview: Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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A Pirate Bold
Overview: The Pirate Chief and his Flunky are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-17
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Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Overview: Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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From Rags to Britches
Overview: Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Trimmed in Gold
Overview: Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to them and with the shop’s manicurist in tow they run into their customer again who is a crooked gambler winning his money by questionable methods. As he rakes in the pots, an assistant pours the money down a chute which leads to a vault. Billy and Andy, in their explorations, find this vault and think they have discovered a mine. Taking some of the money, they go to the gambler's room and sit in the game. Thus, the money continues to circulate - from the mine to Billy - from Billy to the gambler - and down the chute again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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Wandering Willies
Overview: Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Love's Last Laugh
Overview: Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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Asleep at the Switch
Overview: Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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Sneezing Beezers
Overview: An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be crowned if he returns to Necko-Shavia and hires a taxi driver to take him there. It all turns out to be a ploy by villains to get them back to the snow-covered country. When the villains kidnap the princess and attempt a getaway in their airplane taxi driver Billy daringly negotiates a high jump on his skis and overtakes the plane in mid-air, thus affecting a thrilling rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-19
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Butter Fingers
Overview: The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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The Paperhangers' Revenge
Overview: Clover Comedy starring Bud Duncan. Wallpaper hangers go on strike. Bud and his friend, in need of money, become scab laborers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-30
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Whispering Whiskers
Overview: Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Circus Today
Overview: Two circus hands create chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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The Cup of Fury
Overview: Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Flying Luck
Overview: A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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The Spieler
Overview: After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-20
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Ice Cold Cocos
Overview: Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Just a Good Guy
Overview: A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-24
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Gymnasium Jim
Overview: Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-09
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The Dare-Devil
Overview: The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-25
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Love and Doughnuts
Overview: Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-14
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The Heart Snatcher
Overview: A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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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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When Summer Comes
Overview: Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-22
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On Patrol
Overview: Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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The Duck Hunter
Overview: A 1922 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-13
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The Aviator
Overview: Brooks, a publisher and his publicist decide to boost the sales of a wartime book of flying experiences. They credit the book to popular author Robert Street, who is completely ignorant about aviation. Robert gets into all sorts of trouble in attempting to carry on the ruse, saving his friend's business but also attracting the attention of aviation-mad Grace Douglas. At first, he is able to carry out simple publicity events, but when he accidentally starts up an aircraft, his incredible aerobatics end with a landing in a haystack. When a race is staged between him and French ace Major Jules Gaillard, it ends with Robert confessing he is no pilot, but still winning Grace's heart. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Sherlock Jr.
Overview: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-17
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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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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Overview: Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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The Count Takes the Count
Overview: Charley Chase' insurance company has a million dollar policy on Andrea Leeds' wedding coming off. When Andrea runs away and cons Charley into thinking she's a detective in pursuit of herself, there's no shortage of great laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-22
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Nip and Tuck
Overview: Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-11
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Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-26
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Stupid, but Brave
Overview: Impoverished "bum" gets a close shave from a menacing barber, then gets tangled up with a banana king, escaped convicts and marathon runners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-25
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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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A Home Made Man
Overview: Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-17
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The Poor Rich Cleaners
Overview: Bud Duncan & Kewpie Morgan take a job as cleaners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-09
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Step Forward
Overview: The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-13
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Hooked
Overview: Lloyd Hamilton goes fishing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-08
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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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Skylarking
Overview: The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with the wife of a cop and both the policeman and the inventor's wife are in hot pursuit. What makes this interesting are the inventor's clever devices--such as a hot air balloon car!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-08
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The Scuttlers
Overview: The Scuttlers is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. William Farnum and Jackie Saunders star in this adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-12
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His Noisy Still
Overview: If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-25
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Be Reasonable
Overview: Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her eyes set on the handsome lifeguard and the collection agents either want Billy to pay for this necklace or return it. Well, she naturally doesn't want to give up the pearls, so Billy decides to break in to her house to steal them (and a few other items while he's at it).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Back to God's Country
Overview: After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While they're at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain, who is the man who killed her father. The captain causes an 'accident' to happen to Peter, so Dolores is all alone and defenceless as they drop anchor in a remote harbour.
Genres: Romance Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-27
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The Shriek of Araby
Overview: An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-04
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Spuds
Overview: In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-10
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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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Advertising Did It
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-18
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Teasing a Tornado
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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A Species of Mexican Man
Overview: A simple born man rises to power in Mexico but when the country is torn by war he travels to the US in search of arms to aid the fight. While there he saves Hiram and his sister Rosa with whom he becomes enamored. He feels the pull to stay with her but leaves her with the assurance he will return when the battle is won.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-25
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Atta Boy
Overview: Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-10
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What a Clue Will Do
Overview: Potts, the detective, with his pupil, Pan, are called by a mother to save her child. They go to the spot, accompanied by their hound, in a dog grip, and find the broken-hearted mother, who gives them a shoe and a little shirt as the only means of identifying her child. They see the cub reporter, who has been sent to the neighborhood on a lost child story, and think that she is the kidnapper. Potts enters the saloon, after he sees the reporter enter. She has gone to report on the telephone to her editor. Potts holds up the whole room, and then he and Pan proceed to search the premises. One particularly large person threatens them with a bungstarter. While Pan is waiting for Potts, he scrapes acquaintance with the reporter. When the detectives return from their fruitless search they see the big fellow playing the piano. The distracted mother comes in, and seeing the piano player she recognizes him as her child. Potts takes one look at the tiny shoe and the shirt and gives up the case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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