Birthday: 1895-02-15
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, USA
Biography: Vernon Bruce Dent (February 16, 1895 – November 5, 1963) was an American comic actor, who appeared in over 400 films. He co-starred in many short films for Columbia Pictures, frequently as the foil and the main antagonist and ally to The Three Stooges.
The Stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented ...
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Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, usin...
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As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he ...
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Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun w...
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Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune...
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It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweethear...
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Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and ...
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Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden preparing their latest meal. After the meal, they take a stro...
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El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her form...
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A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall....
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Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to...
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A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird...
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In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club....
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Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother...
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The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay the...
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Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. ...
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The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dress...
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The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys sk...
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The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uni...
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Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the Amer...
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The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super...
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The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, t...
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Detective Harry is on the trail of a stolen diamond necklace worth $100,000....
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Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the sh...
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Monte and Vernon go to a society party where they behave like jerks. Monte's pants get torn, the but...
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Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of And...
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Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Root...
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The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, th...
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The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint comp...
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Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a pi...
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Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable...
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Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife....
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Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav...
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The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act ins...
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Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and ...
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Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway....
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The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat i...
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Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his old...
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Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a...
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Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his con...
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The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcin...
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Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his...
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Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously je...
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Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invi...
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Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fa...
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Ben returns from the big city with his pockets full of cash. A hard-hearted, gold-digging vamp ensna...
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Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading ma...
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Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss....
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Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughte...
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With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to sn...
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Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!...
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San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The M...
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The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, cau...
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The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their m...
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Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the...
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The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe',...
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The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor...
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The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for...
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The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching inventio...
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A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. W...
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The Stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break ...
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The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. ...
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The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a c...
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Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invi...
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Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on uns...
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The Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair....
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The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where ...
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The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity...
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The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Th...
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Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is ...
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Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente where they li...
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The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Ac...
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The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They esca...
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An auto salesman fall in love with a rich girl but she is already engaged....
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The Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie...
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The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their job...
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Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée's ...
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Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a...
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Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and...
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A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is abse...
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A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the b...
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We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know...
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Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. Wha...
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Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's deat...
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The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed lit...
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The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fo...
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The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mothe...
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The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headq...
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The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief ru...
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Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket....
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This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliabl...
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Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his...
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Al is told to deliver a radiophone message to a certain business man. A gang of wicked looking plott...
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Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him ...
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The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie...
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The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. ...
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The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car the...
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The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy sever...
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Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients....
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Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talent...
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After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania,...
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Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure ou...
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Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to...
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Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy wo...
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Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kid...
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A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime...
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At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in...
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Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers....
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A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle ...
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Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has decla...
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Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please...
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A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC....
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The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to th...
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Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and s...
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Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who i...
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Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beau...
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The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Hav...
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The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all...
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Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope...
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A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them...
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The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit....
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Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them....
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The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have lo...
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In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment i...
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In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from get...
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An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her fathe...
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The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks ...
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Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the l...
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Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories a...
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J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bou...
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An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline...
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Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's ...
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This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thom...
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Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't rec...
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Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangs...
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Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a ...
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Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to...
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A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe cler...
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Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington....
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Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims h...
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Born in Russia, vaudeville acrobat Hank Mann acrobat accustomed without efforts towards American fil...
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After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e...
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A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight ...
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When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, ...
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films....
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Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a ...
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The action takes place in a gum factory. By a peculiar accident, a bootlegger attempting to avoid th...
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A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery....
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Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments t...
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A poor chap, with only fifty cents, hesitates whether to buy a meal with it or visit a fortune telle...
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A high-society woman films a vanity film of her dancing with a group of women. The premiere takes an...
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Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines....
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Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who mis...
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In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest...
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In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor w...
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Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robb...
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This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chas...
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Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places...
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Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance....
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Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf....
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To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home....
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The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living...
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A documentary short included as an extra with "The Buster Keaton Collection"....
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Set in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand o...
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A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he i...
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A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d...
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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Through a series of misunderstandings, Bert becomes innocently involved with his boss' wife....
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show....
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El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but the...
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Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl....
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Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort...
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Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With t...
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Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautif...
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On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...
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Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies a...
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Andy "Sunshine" Wilson, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, catches a ride with motorist Luckenbach who is on...
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Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to co...
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Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long c...
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A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...
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Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimo...
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A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality....
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A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father...
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Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...
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When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son....
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When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college...
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Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death ...
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The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well unt...
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Returning G.I. Curt Norton (Ken Curtis), owner of a radio station, finds his father Amos (Guy Kibbee...
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An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school....
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The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry th...
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The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field...
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The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to dru...
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A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo...
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When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a ...
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A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trou...
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Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearde...
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A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pu...
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Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix....
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A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, un...
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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a ...
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Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware...
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Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, sa...
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A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his weddi...
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Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their tr...
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The Smiths' cook, exasperated by giving up her day off in order to cook for an unappreciative guest,...
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Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate...
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A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents ...
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Danny Webb plays wanna-be Hollywood agent, Speedy Williams, while Mary Treen plays Patsy, the best f...
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and...
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When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted t...
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Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Mar...
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and...
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Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. T...
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This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding Ma...
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Hank Mann is the conductor of a horse-drawn trolley that carries a motley assortment of passengers t...
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Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while the...
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Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the j...
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Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welco...
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Charley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection...
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Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy....
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Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in....
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When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kill...
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Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha...
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A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard....
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A piano teacher and her roommate decide to invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comed...
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Mobster Louie the Wolf sends an unsuspecting handyman (Keaton) to gather up the collection money owe...
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Sad sack gob Billy finds himself challenged to two duels at the same time in the French countryside ...
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100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead ...
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The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man...
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Daphne and Thelma want their husbands to take them somewhere nice for dinner. But husbands Johnny an...
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On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young wo...
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Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Vera Reynolds, Harrison Ford, John Patrick, Sally Rand....
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