William Blaisdell
Also Known As: Bill Blaisdell
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: April 01, 1865
Deathday: January 01, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Say Uncle
Overview: Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-09
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Naughty Baby
Overview: A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-06
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The Covered Schooner
Overview: Monty Banks becomes a sailor in the hunt for his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-29
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Hot Sands
Overview: Monty Banks finds love and mischief at the amusement park, in this two-reel comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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Wedding Bells
Overview: Monty Banks plays a groom who is about to get married. In fact, he has the marriage license just about in hand. Apparently, he's had a bachelor party the night before and when his fiancée rings him, he can't find the phone, but there's several other guys sleeping it off. The landlady suspects that some hijinks have gone on and looks to investigate. Monty figures things out pretty quickly. Luckily for him, one of the gentlemen sleeping it off is in a policeman's uniform and Monty has him pretend he's arrested everybody in the room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-16
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Bashful
Overview: In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-23
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Two-Gun Gussie
Overview: A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-19
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The Non-Stop Kid
Overview: Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-12
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The City Slicker
Overview: Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-02
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Rainbow Island
Overview: After finding a note in a floating bottle, our hero is off to resue the heroine. He runs into a tribe of cannibals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-28
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Over the Fence
Overview: Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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Turn Him Loose
Overview: A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-16
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Campus Cuties
Overview: Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's school, with the usual watchdogs on duty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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Bees in His Bonnet
Overview: Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-15
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Follow the Crowd
Overview: A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-07
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Why Pick on Me?
Overview: A trip to the beach is the location for this 1918 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-12
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On the Fire
Overview: Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-22
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The Big Idea
Overview: A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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Step Lively
Overview: Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take no for an answer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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Move On
Overview: Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-09
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The Lamb
Overview: The Lamb is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It is believed to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-03
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Sic 'Em, Towser
Overview: At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-09
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Hear 'Em Rave
Overview: Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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Swing Your Partners
Overview: Hijinx at a classical dance academy when two tramps take a stab at ballet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-29
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Derby Day
Overview: Very hungry Monty chases a garbage truck all around town to retrieve a box lunch thrown away by a picky young lady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-23
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Going! Going! Gone!
Overview: Lloyd and Pollard help a young girl out of the water but they are then chased by a shrew. On a bicycle built for two, Lloyd lazes about on the back while Pollard sweats from all of his effort. Thieves escape by car but it breaks down. Lloyd and Pollard help them start up again but the thieves steal the tandem bicycle, leaving the car in the hands of the heros.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-25
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
Overview: Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-23
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Pay or Move
Overview: Monty is trying to collect rent from a couple of tough deadbeats who have made a sport of beating rent collectors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-17
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Africa F.O.B.
Overview: Monty Banks becomes a car salesman and is shifted to Africa to sell one to King Obogeegee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-15
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An Ozark Romance
Overview: Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-06
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Sappy Service
Overview: In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT allow any of these process servers in the place. Unfortunately, Bobby (Bobby Vernon) is instructed to serve this angry doc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-13
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Take a Chance
Overview: It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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The Yankee Clipper
Overview: A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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Page Me
Overview: Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complications that ensue he finds himself handing from the hotel's ledge from many stories up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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The Hansom Cabman
Overview: Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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Hey There
Overview: In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-28
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Overview: Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Bliss
Overview: A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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Chase Yourself
Overview: Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-26
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On the Jump
Overview: On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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Always Late
Overview: Monty is chronically late. He comes to work late and loses his job, and then manages to miss his own wedding...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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His Angel Child
Overview: A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Pinched
Overview: Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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Where Is My Wife?
Overview: Lovable buffoon Monty Banks tries to relax, but ultimately spends his day worrying about who is keeping company with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-15
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A Bedroom Scandal
Overview: A Monty Banks comedy short.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-15
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It's a Wild Life
Overview: Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-21
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Let's Go
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-24
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Kicked Out
Overview: Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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Here Come the Girls
Overview: Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-17
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Beat It
Overview: Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-24
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Nothing But Trouble
Overview: Harold appears as an active young man who gets a job as waiter in a restaurant. Disaster overtakes him and he is hurried off to jail at the close.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-26
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The Tip
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-06
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Pipe the Whiskers
Overview: Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-14
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Hit Him Again
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-17
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Fireman Save My Child
Overview: In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-25
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Look Pleasant, Please
Overview: A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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A Flivver Wedding
Overview: The misadventures of a young man who sets out in his flivver to stop the girl he loves from being forcibly married to a rival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Fresh Air
Overview: A hunting comedy full of cartoonish gags.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Cleaned and Dry
Overview: Monty is the driver of a delivery wagon for a cleaning and dyeing establishment, romps with a Ford and gets himself into many ridiculous scrapes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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Squirrel Food
Overview: A fortuneteller informs Monte that he will marry the first girl he meets. After several false starts, he meets what he is sure is "the" girl. She takes him to jail, hits him with a book, and affects her brother's escape, leaving Monte inside. He finally gets out, a chase occurs and he swears off girls forever, only to be snared again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Paging Love
Overview: Monty appears as a chap whose prospective father-in-law, to find out the stuff of which he is made, sets him out to peddle an encyclopedia which no one else can sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-26
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A Wild Goose Chase
Overview: Monty chases a goose. Hilarity ensues. (This film is partially lost.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-02
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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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Fair But Foolish
Overview: The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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The Golf Bug
Overview: Golf with Monty Banks and pals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-08
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Court Plaster
Overview: Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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Happy Heels
Overview: Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-19
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For Sadie's Sake
Overview: Chaos behind the scenes at a show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Dizzy Sights
Overview: A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-17
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Duck Out
Overview: At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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Taxi Please
Overview: A wild taxi driver can't get ahead with his fares but he is still willing to help his sweetheart at the drugstore, especially when he figures out how to sell hair tonic
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-30
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In and Out
Overview: Monty and his wife are newlyweds dealing with things like making breakfast that’s edible and dealing with a persistent book salesman. Only reel 1 survives, so a proper plot synopsis is difficult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-17
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A Rarin’ Romeo
Overview: A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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