The Abbott & Costello Show marked the last major commercial success for the comic team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The...
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1952
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~...
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1945
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If one were forced to choose, Swingtime Johnny may well be the best of the Andrews Sisters' 1940 "B"-musicals. Patty, Maxine...
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1944
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In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the...
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1944
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David...
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1944
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Although coming in at an odd running time -- 40 minutes -- this interesting, low-budget drama looks at the adventures, or...
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce,...
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1943
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One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that...
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1942
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1941
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1940
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Buster Keaton is sadly miscast in this two-reel comedy about the capture of a jewel thief. Mainly nonstop slapstick, the...
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1940
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Whether in the newsroom or on board a speeding train, aspiring reporter Buster Keaton creates havoc in this funny short. To...
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1940
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Nothing But Pleasure was hardly any pleasure at all. The third of Buster Keaton's ten two-reel comedies for Columbia went...
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1940
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This Civil War comedy, related in flashbacks, depicts the misadventures of Buster Keaton as he tries to avoid getting killed...
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1939
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The first, and best, of ten comedy two-reelers Buster Keaton was to make for the Columbia short subject department, Pest From...
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1939
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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Even a run-of-the-mill Three Stooges short had its moments, as this one proves. It begins in November, 1918, and Larry, Moe...
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1936
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1935
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The Three Stooges are in fine form for their fifth Columbia short. Clyde Bruckman, who worked with silent luminaries Buster...
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1935
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It is said that former gagman Clyde Bruckman spent most of his directing days sitting in his canvas chair quietly nursing a...
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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The short comedy The Fatal Glass of Beer stars the legendary W.C. Fields as Mr. Snavely, a prospector who is awaiting the...
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1933
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Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie...
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1932
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1931
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an...
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1930
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A Flask of Fields consists of three short subjects starring the inimitable W.C. Fields. All three will be familiar to Fields...
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1930
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This comedy classic is the sound-film debut of enormously popular and brilliant silent comedian Harold Lloyd. He plays a...
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1929
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This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM...
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1928
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This two-reel Laurel and Hardy silent is especially rich in slapstick. The comic duo have been promised five hundred dollars...
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1928
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In this Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent, Stan's toothache is keeping both him and Ollie awake. Their attempts to pull the...
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1928
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Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he...
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1927
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1927
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This Hal Roach two-reeler was comedian Stan Laurel's last film as a solo player (all his films after this one would be with...
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1927
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1927
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Jewish comic Max Davidson stars in this Hal Roach farce that would most likely have been completely forgotten had not Stan...
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1927
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Laurel is Canvasback Clump, an underfed and thoroughly clueless prize-fighter, and Hardy his rather overly optimistic...
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1927
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Horse Shoes wasn't quite as spectacular as Monty Banks' previous comedy Play Safe, but it still packed plenty of laughs into...
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1927
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Harold Lloyd plays a wealthy young spendthrift who is upset that his name is being used to bring parishioners into a...
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1926
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Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married....
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1925
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One of Harold Lloyd's best feature-length comedies, The Freshman, features the bespectacled regular guy as Harold Lamb, a...
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1925
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1924
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The enduring power of this silent-era comedy classic from director/star Buster Keaton can be ascertained simply by...
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1924
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Buster Keaton's third starring feature (discounting 1920's The Saphead, which was not conceived with Keaton in mind), Our...
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1923
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Thirty years after its release, Buster Keaton admitted that his first feature film was essentially three two-reel comedies...
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1923
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