Harry Gribbon
Also Known As: Harry Peter Gribbon, Harry Gribbons, Silk Hat Harry
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: June 08, 1885
Deathday: July 28, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Swell People
Overview: A millionaire bricklayer invites a bank president and his wife to dinner.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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A Hollywood Theme Song
Overview: During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-07
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The Cameraman
Overview: A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-10
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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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Chinatown Charlie
Overview: A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Overview: When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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Ride Him, Cowboy
Overview: John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
Genres: Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-27
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Wedding Yells
Overview: Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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Inbad the Sailor
Overview: Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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One Spooky Night
Overview: One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-27
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Suits to Nuts
Overview: Two incompetent lawyers attempt to protect a client accused of being a peeping Tom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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The Bees' Buzz
Overview: Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-06
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Corn on the Cop
Overview: A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-28
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The Lottery Bride
Overview: Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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Dumb Dicks
Overview: Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-08
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High Hats and Low Brows
Overview: Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-10
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Clancy at the Bat
Overview: The story begins in the locker room and the players learn that Andy has bet all their money on the game....which means they'll make out great IF they win. Otherwise, he's in big trouble. And, not surprisingly, it all boils down to the bottom of the 9th inning. Will Clyde be the hero or will his players collectively beat the stuffing out of him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-03
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A Hollywood Star
Overview: Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-13
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Dance Hall Marge
Overview: Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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Mushrooms
Overview: Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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Midnight Daddies
Overview: Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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Sugar Plum Papa
Overview: Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-16
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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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Rural Romeos
Overview: Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-16
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Art Trouble
Overview: Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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The Great Junction Hotel
Overview: A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-26
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Who's Crazy
Overview: Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man, police catch him climbing the fire escape and assume he's some kissing bandit. This leads to a visit with the police psychologist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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You Said a Mouthful
Overview: Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Sleepless Hollow
Overview: Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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The All-American Kickback
Overview: Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-29
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My Mummy's Arms
Overview: Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-28
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Tide of Empire
Overview: California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Overview: Comedy Short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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On With the Show!
Overview: With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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So Long Letty
Overview: Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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Hatta Marri
Overview: Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-10
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Down on the Farm
Overview: The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-17
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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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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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The Extra Girl
Overview: Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Overview: Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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The New Half Back
Overview: Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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The Golfers
Overview: Charlie Guest (Charlie Guest) wants to be a golfer. Bert Swor (Bert Swor) is a famous golfer. Thelma Hill (Thelma Hill) only loves the best golfer. Follow Charlie as he tries to become the world's greatest golfer and win Thelma's love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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The Gorilla
Overview: A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-02
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Her Accidental Hero
Overview: Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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One Cylinder Love
Overview: A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an automobile.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The King of the Kitchen
Overview: A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-30
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Big Hearted
Overview: Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, Oscar Black and his wife (Harry Gribbon and Vivien Oakland, who was billed as Vivian Oakland) move in
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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Her Circus Man
Overview: A lost silent short comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-09
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Ye Olden Grafter
Overview: Largely a typical Keystone flirting-in-the-park one-reeler, this one is differentiated slightly by dressing the players in early nineteenth century garb and having them adopt antiquated manners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-18
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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The Tomboy
Overview: Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-26
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Overview: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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The Smart Set
Overview: A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-24
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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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Caught with the Goods
Overview: Caught With The Goods (1917) in a jealousy comedy starring Harry Gribbon, Alice Jorgens, and Joseph Callahan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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Snug in the Jug
Overview: A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-19
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The Blonde Bomber
Overview: The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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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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Ma's Pride and Joy
Overview: This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Up in Mary's Attic
Overview: Mary has married Jack Langdon , the physical instructor of the young ladies' seminary where she is being schooled. Because she is underage and risks losing the fortune her uncle has left her, Mary is compelled to keep the marriage a secret, but a baby adds to the complications. At first the young couple leaves it in the care of an Indian woman. Waldo Pennanink , the son of the school's headmaster, becomes suspicious of all the time the couple is spending with the Indian woman and the baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Honeymoon
Overview: Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-29
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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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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Baby Face
Overview: A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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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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Knockout Reilly
Overview: A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-16
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A Social Cub
Overview: A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-16
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Rose-Marie
Overview: Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-11
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Ghost Parade
Overview: A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-23
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Overview: In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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The Shakedown
Overview: The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-09
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A Dash of Courage
Overview: A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-07
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Uppercut O'Brien
Overview: Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-22
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Did She Do Wrong?
Overview: An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Ladies They Talk About
Overview: A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
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Wronged by Mistake
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-10
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Two Crooks
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-26
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