Jack Shutta
Also Known As: Charles Schutte
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 03, 1899
Deathday: June 28, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Cactus Caballeros
Overview: Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Hollywood Trouble
Overview: An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Overview: As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Tars and Stripes
Overview: Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer's ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO's girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked in the brig -- but his girlfriend is in there too, so she can be together with her beloved Elmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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Once a Hero
Overview: A 1931 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-22
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Three of a Kind
Overview: A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-19
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Money on Your Life
Overview: This fun little piece has Danny Kaye as man who buys a life insurance policy. What the insurance salesman doesn't know is that Danny is on the hit list by assassins so he has to do everything he can to keep him alive or else pay up on the policy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Flicker Fever
Overview: A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
Overview: A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-02
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The Curtain Falls
Overview: In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Hey, Pop!
Overview: Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-12
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Below the Deadline
Overview: After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-07
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Taking the Count
Overview: Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-24
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The Burning Cross
Overview: Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Half-Baked Relations
Overview: A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Overview: Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Overview: Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Ghost Walks
Overview: A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Tap Roots
Overview: Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-25
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Up Goes Maisie
Overview: A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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The Girl Who Came Back
Overview: A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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