Billy Bevan
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Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris, 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in 254 American films between 1916 and 1950.
Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie Bevan. He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912 and later toured Canada. Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916. When the company disbanded, Bevan became a supporting actor in Mack Sennett movie comedies. An expressive pantomimist, Bevan's quiet scene-stealing attracted attention, and by 1922 Bevan was a Sennett star. He supplemented his income, however, by establishing a citrus and avocado farm at Escondido, California.
Usually filmed wearing a derby hat and a drooping mustache, Bevan may not have possessed an indelible screen character like Charlie Chaplin but he had a friendly, funny presence in the frantic Sennett comedies. Much of the comedy depended on Bevan's skilled timing and reactions; the famous "oyster" routine performed on film by Curly Howard, Lou Costello, and Huntz Hall—in which a bowl of "fresh oyster stew" shows alarming signs of life and battles the guy trying to eat it—was originated on film decades earlier by Bevan in the short film Wandering Willies.
By the mid-1920s Bevan was often teamed with Andy Clyde; Clyde soon graduated to his own starring series. The late 1920s found Bevan playing in wild marital farces for Sennett.
The advent of talking pictures took their toll on the careers of many silent stars, including Billy Bevan. Bevan began a second career in "talkies" as a character actor and bit player in roles such as that of a bus driver in the 1929 film High Voltage, a hotel employee in the Mae Murray film Peacock Alley, and the supporting role of Second Lieutenant Trotter in Journey's End in 1930. His starring roles had come to an end, however, and for the next 20 years he often would play rowdy Cockneys (as in Pack Up Your Troubles with The Ritz Brothers), and affable Englishmen (as in Tin Pan Alley and Terror by Night). He played a friendly bus conductor opposite Greer Garson in one of the opening scenes of Mrs. Miniver.
Bevan died in 1957 in Escondido, California, just before new audiences discovered him in Robert Youngson's silent-comedy compilations. (The Youngson films mispronounce his name as "Be-VAN"; Bevan himself offered the proper pronunciation in a Voice of Hollywood reel in 1930.)
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0201 |
| Birthday | 1887-09-29 |
| Place of Birth | Orange, New South Wales, Australia |
| Also Known As | William Bevan, Bill Bevans, Billy Bevin, Bill Bivin, |
1940
Rebecca
7.9/2026
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1938
Bringing Up Baby
7.5/1115
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1949
The Secret Of St. Ives
6/3
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Phil...
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1946
Terror by Night
6.582/158
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1936
Dracula's Daughter
6/231
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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1941
Suspicion
7.115/919
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1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.5/414
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1950
Fortunes of Captain Blood
7.3/5
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1933
Pop's Pal
7/1
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1944
The Pearl of Death
7.091/104
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1924
Off His Trolley
9/1
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1935
A Tale of Two Cities
6.8/85
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1921
Around the Town: British Film Stars and Studios
0/0
The other side of the screen with noted producers and film stars.
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1940
The Invisible Man Returns
6.283/143
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1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge
5.6/68
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1932
Payment Deferred
5.706/17
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1938
Mysterious Mr. Moto
6.2/21
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1945
Tonight and Every Night
5.548/21
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1930
Journey's End
6.214/7
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1938
The Girl of the Golden West
5.3/5
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1917
Bombs and Bandits
0/0
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Bombs and Bandits
1934
The Lost Patrol
6.5/80
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The Lost Patrol
1927
Gold Digger of Weepah
8/1
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1927
The Girl from Everywhere
7/1
Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.
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The Girl from Everywhere
1928
The Bicycle Flirt
10/1
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The Bicycle Flirt
1928
The Girl from Nowhere
9/1
Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.
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1928
Motorboat Mamas
9/1
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1928
Hubby's Weekend Trip
9/1
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1929
Don't Get Jealous
9/1
Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. Billy, his landlord, offers to take out Carmelita...
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1942
Counter-Espionage
6.688/8
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
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1933
Cavalcade
5.5/137
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst even...
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1929
Calling Hubby's Bluff
10/1
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making i...
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1929
Pink Pajamas
9/1
Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously jealous. Billy sends his wife some silk pajamas to m...
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1926
Musclebound Music
7/1
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However,...
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1926
Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
10/1
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1924
East of the Water Plug
8/1
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1942
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
6.5/13
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
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1925
From Rags to Britches
9/1
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
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1926
Trimmed in Gold
9/1
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to...
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1926
Should Husbands Marry?
8/1
Alice, a waitress working in a restaurant managed by a flirtatious and diminutive proprietor (Barney Hellum). The proprietor’s wife is a formidable, "...
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1927
Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
7/1
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1923
Pitfalls of a Big City
8/1
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1923
Inbad the Sailor
10/1
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1924
One Spooky Night
7/1
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1924
Wandering Waistlines
9/1
The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.
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1924
The Cannon Ball Express
9/1
Fun develops after a feud between a railroad president and a promoter, and takes the form of a race between the pathetic train and an auto bus sponsor...
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1922
The Crossroads of New York
7/1
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1924
Little Robinson Corkscrew
10/1
Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
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1925
Sneezing Beezers
9/1
An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be cro...
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Sneezing Beezers
1925
Over Thereabouts
8/1
Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
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Over Thereabouts
1927
Peaches and Plumbers
9/1
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
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Peaches and Plumbers
1927
Cured in the Excitement
7/1
Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!
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Cured in the Excitement
1927
The Bull Fighter
10/1
Young Flint (Eddie Quillan), finds himself in a series of slapstick mishaps revolving around the absurdity of the bullfighting arena, featuring a clim...
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The Bull Fighter
1929
Weak But Willing
9/1
Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal, includi...
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1937
God's Country and the Woman
5.2/5
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and...
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1916
Pirates of the Air
9/1
The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they we...
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Pirates of the Air
1933
Luxury Liner
7.2/4
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
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Luxury Liner
1928
His New Stenographer
0/0
Billy Brooks, a lawyer, sets out to get a divorce for a client by framing him in a compromising situation. But the scheme goes askew when the client's...
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His New Stenographer
1929
High Voltage
5.167/9
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the ru...
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High Voltage
1926
Wandering Willies
9/1
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to yo...
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Wandering Willies
1925
Butter Fingers
6.6/5
The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a gam...
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Butter Fingers
1932
Vanity Fair
4.667/6
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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Vanity Fair
1926
Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
9/1
A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husban...
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Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
1928
The Best Man
7.5/2
A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few p...
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The Best Man
1928
The Beach Club
10/1
In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.
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The Beach Club
1936
Piccadilly Jim
6.75/2
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with L...
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Piccadilly Jim
1942
Mrs. Miniver
7.079/298
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...
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Mrs. Miniver
1932
Sky Devils
5/4
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Ma...
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Sky Devils
1951
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
0/0
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
1934
Limehouse Blues
4.375/8
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloo...
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Limehouse Blues
1925
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
8/2
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of...
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1934
Stingaree
6.136/11
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Si...
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Stingaree
1937
Slave Ship
5.063/8
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Slave Ship
1926
Hoboken to Hollywood
10/1
Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood offic...
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Hoboken to Hollywood
1924
Lizzies of the Field
6.667/6
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country...
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Lizzies of the Field
1926
Flirty Four-Flushers
6.5/2
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
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Flirty Four-Flushers
1926
Masked Mamas
8/1
A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
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Masked Mamas
1921
Be Reasonable
7.417/6
Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her...
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Be Reasonable
1921
Astray from the Steerage
10/1
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentall...
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Astray from the Steerage
1935
Mystery Woman
6.5/2
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove h...
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Mystery Woman
1929
The Sky Hawk
7/2
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under susp...
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The Sky Hawk
1926
Whispering Whiskers
10/1
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with cl...
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Whispering Whiskers
1937
The Wrong Road
4.75/8
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000,...
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The Wrong Road
1939
Pack Up Your Troubles
6.833/3
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1924
The Hollywood Kid
5.4/5
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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The Hollywood Kid
1931
Who's Who in the Zoo
0/0
Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing...
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Who's Who in the Zoo
1930
Scotch
8/1
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
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Scotch
1941
Shining Victory
6.056/9
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistan...
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Shining Victory
1930
Peacock Alley
5/4
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. Wh...
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Peacock Alley
1933
Too Much Harmony
7/2
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Too Much Harmony
1938
Shadows Over Shanghai
5.333/6
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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Shadows Over Shanghai
1924
Galloping Bungalows
6.333/3
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage whi...
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Galloping Bungalows
1926
Circus Today
9/1
Two circus hands create chaos.
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Circus Today
1933
Looking Forward
6.6/5
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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1952
Hans Christian Andersen
6.191/76
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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Hans Christian Andersen
1926
A Sea Dog's Tale
7/1
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidna...
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A Sea Dog's Tale
1926
Ice Cold Cocos
9/1
Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated...
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Ice Cold Cocos
1935
Black Sheep
7.333/3
On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his...
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Black Sheep
1936
Private Number
6.667/6
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler a...
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Private Number
1947
Moss Rose
6.6/19
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the...
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Moss Rose
1922
Gymnasium Jim
6/3
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
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Gymnasium Jim
1923
The Extra Girl
6.389/18
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 in...
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The Extra Girl
1921
Bright Eyes
6.5/2
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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Bright Eyes
1921
Love and Doughnuts
7/1
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
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1927
Easy Pickings
10/1
Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Pe...
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Easy Pickings
1941
Penny Serenade
6.6/125
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to...
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Penny Serenade
1933
Alice in Wonderland
6.136/66
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Alice in Wonderland
1916
Gertie's Gasoline Glide
6.5/2
Two men are vying for the favours of Gaby. One of them takes her for a motorcycle ride, the other in his car. When the second man manages to marry her...
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Gertie's Gasoline Glide
1918
Somebody's Widow
0/0
A comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.
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Somebody's Widow
1938
Blond Cheat
7.3/3
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings....
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Blond Cheat
1936
Champagne Charlie
5.4/5
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Champagne Charlie
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
6.8/14
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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1931
Born to Love
5.333/6
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her chi...
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Born to Love
1934
Caravan
6.5/2
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Caravan
1939
Let Freedom Ring
6.75/4
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Let Freedom Ring
1939
We Are Not Alone
6.917/6
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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We Are Not Alone
1933
The Big Squeal
7/1
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl frien...
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The Big Squeal
1948
The Swordsman
7.333/3
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
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The Swordsman
1922
When Summer Comes
10/1
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
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When Summer Comes
1922
On Patrol
5.333/3
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
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1924
Wall Street Blues
8/1
A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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Wall Street Blues
1923
One Cylinder Love
7/1
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 automob...
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One Cylinder Love
1922
The Duck Hunter
9/1
A 1922 comedy short.
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1918
Her Rustic Romeo
0/0
A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
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1943
Jane Eyre
6.9/157
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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1924
Three Foolish Weeks
10/1
A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way wit...
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1947
It Had to Be You
7.8/4
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
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It Had to Be You
1937
The Sheik Steps Out
6.5/2
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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The Sheik Steps Out
1931
Transatlantic
5.846/13
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lo...
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Transatlantic
1941
Confirm or Deny
4.8/3
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz...
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Confirm or Deny
1928
Riley the Cop
5.727/11
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Riley the Cop
1937
Another Dawn
6.444/9
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashto...
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Another Dawn
1934
Shock
7.333/3
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob H...
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Shock
1940
The Earl of Chicago
6.286/7
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1944
The Lodger
6.49/99
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Lodger
1943
London Blackout Murders
6.667/3
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Ja...
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London Blackout Murders
1927
The Golf Nut
7/2
Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non...
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The Golf Nut
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.5/195
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1948
The Black Arrow
5.538/13
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is...
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The Black Arrow
1950
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
5.278/9
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1933
Peg o' My Heart
5/6
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of...
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Peg o' My Heart
1933
Thundering Taxis
7/1
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Thundering Taxis
1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
6.2/5
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
1940
Tin Pan Alley
5.364/11
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s...
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Tin Pan Alley
1932
The Silent Witness
7/3
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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The Silent Witness
1940
The Long Voyage Home
6.629/105
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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The Long Voyage Home
1933
She Whoops To Conquer
0/0
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
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She Whoops To Conquer
1935
The Last Outpost
6.2/10
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal le...
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The Last Outpost
1923
Nip and Tuck
8/1
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
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Nip and Tuck
1930
Temptation
10/1
Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan and Eileen Percy.
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Temptation
1943
Forever and a Day
7.5/12
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1932
Me and My Gal
6.4/40
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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Me and My Gal
1937
Personal Property
6.909/11
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow...
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Personal Property
1939
Captain Fury
5.6/9
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Captain Fury
1942
I Married a Witch
6.9/231
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when...
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I Married a Witch
1930
Monte Carlo
6.5/21
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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Monte Carlo
1933
Uncle Jake
10/1
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Uncle Jake
1929
The Trespasser
6.9/15
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...
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The Trespasser
1925
Giddap!
8/1
Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!
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Giddap!
1938
The Young in Heart
6.6/32
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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The Young in Heart
1945
National Velvet
7.198/126
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv...
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National Velvet
1938
A Christmas Carol
6.981/154
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
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A Christmas Carol
1932
Honeymoon Beach
7/1
Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Conni...
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Honeymoon Beach
1936
Song and Dance Man
7/1
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Song and Dance Man
1924
The White Sin
6.333/3
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an...
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The White Sin
1945
The Picture of Dorian Gray
7.141/308
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1921
A Small Town Idol
6.75/4
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villai...
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A Small Town Idol
1920
The Quack Doctor
9/1
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
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The Quack Doctor
1943
The Return of the Vampire
6.1/71
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in W...
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The Return of the Vampire
1918
Cupid In Quarantine
7/2
Eleanor Field and Cullen Landis are in love, but her father, Billy Bevan, objects because.... hey this is a one-reel comedy and we don't have time for...
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Cupid In Quarantine
1925
The Lion's Whiskers
10/1
Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a buildin...
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The Lion's Whiskers
1925
The Iron Nag
8/1
A jail break turns into a race.
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The Iron Nag
1925
Honeymoon Hardships
8/1
A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple a...
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Honeymoon Hardships
1928
His Unlucky Night
10/1
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has g...
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His Unlucky Night
1943
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
7.5/2
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1926
Fight Night
6/2
While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while...
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Fight Night
1927
A Small Town Princess
7/1
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
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A Small Town Princess
1931
Chances
7.429/7
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom be...
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Chances
1948
Let's Live a Little
7/4
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fianc...
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Let's Live a Little
1935
The Widow from Monte Carlo
5.75/4
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins black...
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
1936
Lloyd's of London
7.32/25
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, t...
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Lloyd's of London
1950
Three Secrets
6.5/17
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted a...
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Three Secrets
1957
The Golden Age of Comedy
7.1/14
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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The Golden Age of Comedy
1931
Waterloo Bridge
6.906/48
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid s...
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Waterloo Bridge
1934
One More River
5.222/9
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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One More River
1934
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
5.625/12
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisti...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1949
The Secret Garden
7.1/34
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...
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The Secret Garden
1942
This Above All
6.775/20
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...
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This Above All
1946
Devotion
5.885/13
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Em...
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Devotion
1933
The Way to Love
8/1
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Mad...
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The Way to Love
1930
For the Love o' Lil
10/1
A virtuous lawyer falls for a beautiful but extravagant woman, leading him into financial trouble as he tries to keep up with her wasteful spending, u...
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For the Love o' Lil
1949
Tell It to the Judge
6.625/8
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...
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Tell It to the Judge
1933
A Study in Scarlet
5.6/32
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining me...
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A Study in Scarlet
1963
30 Years of Fun
5.3/3
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buste...
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30 Years of Fun
1933
Techno-Crazy
8/1
TECHNO-CRAZY has to be one of the strangest comedy shorts of the 1930's. Starring Monte Collins as a young man who dreams of technological progress in...
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Techno-Crazy
1946
Cluny Brown
7.171/105
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Cluny Brown
1920
Distilled Love
7/2
Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gy...
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Distilled Love
1918
Are Married Policemen Safe?
0/0
A crusade against women wearing clothes which are more abbreviated than the law allows results in policemen and jurists being captivated by their capt...
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Are Married Policemen Safe?
1920
Love, Honor and Behave
8/1
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another wom...
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Love, Honor and Behave
1920
Married Life
9/1
Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.
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Married Life
1932
The Spot on the Rug
9/1
A writer it charged with the task of trying to come up with an exciting plot in the next chapter of a serial.
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The Spot on the Rug
1928
The Lion's Roar
0/0
A young man wants to propose to his girlfriend, but all the noises and distractions of the city prevent him from doing so. Frustrated, he decides to t...
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