Chester Conklin
Birthday: 1886-01-10
Place of Birth: Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA
Biography: Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 – October 11, 1971) was an early American film comedian who started at Keystone Studios as one of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops, often paired with Mack Swain. He appeared in a series of films with Mabel Normand and worked closely with Charlie Chaplin, both in silent and sound films.
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Greed
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife....
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Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Between Showers
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp a...
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Dough and Dynamite
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two...
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Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the...
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The Masquerader
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed...
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two ...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban...
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The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de...
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Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a...
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Fools for Luck
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears...
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The Beast with a Million Eyes
At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of som...
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The Virginian
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discove...
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Mutiny on the Body
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and ...
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His Wedding Scare
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 Social Celebrity
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. M...
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North of Nevada
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man....
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The Winding Stair
Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away o...
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Say It Again
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. W...
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Fascinating Youth
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris L...
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Another Man's Wife
Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken ...
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Two Flaming Youths
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby G...
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The Masked Bride
An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief....
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f...
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The Love Thief
Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, the...
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How Heroes Are Made
It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet...
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Droppington's Devilish Deed
Thinking he’s performing a good deed stagehand Droppington causes the breakup of the current show wh...
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Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm...
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Call of the Prairie
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like J...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr...
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Tango Tangles
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl....
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Mabel at the Wheel
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to ...
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Twenty Minutes of Love
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, f...
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend ...
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The Lady of the Harem
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan t...
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid...
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Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts
Rival spies on a train cross swords over a woman and an airplane shipment in this Keystone comedy....
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Her Majesty, Love
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desse...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopar...
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Knock on Any Door
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the cour...
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Flat Foot Stooges
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who want...
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Three Little Twirps
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay ...
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Making a Living
A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed...
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Cinema Circus
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with th...
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'Curses!' They Remarked
Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast...
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his dire...
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Springtime in the Sierras
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invite...
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Apache Woman
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of front...
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Keystone Hotel
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the f...
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Double Crossed
Ford Sterling and Mack Swain are a couple of neighborhood toughs who fight over Emma Clifton and get...
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A One Night Stand
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production....
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When Ambrose Dared Walrus
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walr...
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Sagebrush Serenade
Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A...
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Paradise Alley
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the live...
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Forlorn River
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. The...
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Droppington's Family Tree
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a da...
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Cabaret
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub,...
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McFadden's Flats
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock,...
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Cleaning Up
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as po...
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A Woman of the World
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America wi...
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Let's Dance
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her weal...
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow ...
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell ...
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Something for the Boys
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who ge...
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Varsity
The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than...
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Son of Paleface
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found....
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Dutiful But Dumb
The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to th...
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Saved by Wireless
Swain and Conklin, two international secret service men of questionable reputation, have taken up he...
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Swing High
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circ...
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A Hash House Fraud
A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an...
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Anna Christie
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough s...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the G...
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A Clever Dummy
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to pro...
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A Bird's a Bird
Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry....
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Do-Re-Mi-Boom!
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fanc...
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Cinders of Love
Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief....
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An International Sneak
A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard....
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The Phantom of the Opera
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
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The Property Man
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets...
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We're in the Navy Now
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with P...
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Behind the Front
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not kn...
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Zenobia
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage...
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So This Is Washington
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is ...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take ove...
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The Nervous Wreck
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud ...
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Shakedown
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the succes...
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The Spellbinder
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim...
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Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass...
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Private Hell 36
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bill...
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The Cannon Ball
An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he ap...
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Never a Dull Moment
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widow...
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You're Next!
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scie...
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X Marks the Spot
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police office...
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival n...
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She...
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The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
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Brewster's Millions
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns tha...
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo...
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Jesse James at Bay
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for t...
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Love, Speed and Thrills
After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with...
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The Soft Boiled Yegg
Silent comedy short starring Chester Conklin and directed by Harry Edwards...
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The Good Humor Man
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Mar...
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Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studio...
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Chip of the Flying U
Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title ro...
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Sagebrush Law
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun ...
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Piano Mooner
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't ma...
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The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m...
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The Wizard of Oz
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz....
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Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry tw...
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The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...
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The Perils of Pauline
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a de...
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Honolulu Lu
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a g...
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Step Lively, Please
During the course of his flirtation a driver's cab is used by a notorious robber who deposits his ev...
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Song of the Wasteland
In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy tries to uphold law and order in a tough frontier town....
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Battling Bunyan
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the mone...
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I Married a Witch
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter ...
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Sons of the Pioneers
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solv...
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Romance on the Range
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Ro...
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In Old California
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D...
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The Golden Stallion
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mar...
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Valley of the Sun
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble....
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Midnight Lovers
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called bac...
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The Avenging Rider
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold....
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Riders of the Rio Grande
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe...
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Every Day's a Holiday
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she ...
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House of Horror
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The ...
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My Friend Irma
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life o...
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The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...
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Harmon of Michigan
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play profession...
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The Pullman Bride
The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring ...
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Sullivan's Travels
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...
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Gents of Leisure
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware...
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The Big Noise
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney I...
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His Hidden Purpose
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” ...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi...
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The Duchess of Buffalo
An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feelin...
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Sunset Pass
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a ...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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Around the World
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on...
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nomi...
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The Love Trader
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain ...
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The Haunted House
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the wi...
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The Pleasure Buyers
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all...
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Road to Utopia
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had bee...
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Little Giant
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cro...
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Betrayal from the East
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal....
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Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
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Marquis Preferred
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support...
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A Kiss in a Taxi
Bebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was reall...
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey...
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Stairs of Sand
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov...
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Teacher's Pest
Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welco...
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One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair toni...
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Rubber Heels
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of ...
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One Year to Live
Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lasc...
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Brimstone
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hun...
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The Galloping Fish
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new ...
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Studio Sap
Chester Conklin gets a job in the props department of a movie studio. Soon he gets into all sorts of...
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Under the Rouge
War buddies Whitey and Skeeter have become safecrackers. On a job, Skeeter is surprised by the polic...
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So You Want to Be a Musician
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument....
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Hubby’s Job
Hubby is out of work, and wifey is working as a stenographer, posing as a single woman, in an employ...
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Beau Broadway
Gambler and fight promoter Jim Lambert, grants Gunner O'Brien his dying wish and agrees to care for ...
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Skirts
Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is ...
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Desire
Society children Madalyn Harlan and Bob Elkins separate the day they are to be married. Madalyn marr...
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Tell It to Sweeney
Luke Beamish is the engineer of the Isobel, an old iron steed, and Cannonball Casey handles the thro...
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The Wilderness Woman
"Kodiak" MacLean, after years of gold prospecting in the Alaskan Klondike, finally strikes it rich a...
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