Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around,...
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1951
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This "Joe Palooka" entry concentrates on Joe's porcine pal Humphrey Pennyworth (played by Robert Coogan, the brother of...
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1950
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1950
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In Ham Fisher's original Joe Palooka comic strip, Joe's pal Humphrey Pennyworth was a blimp of a man. In Joe Palooka Meets...
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1950
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1950
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Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka,...
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals...
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1949
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Smugglers' Cover was Number Eleven in Monogram's moneymaking "Bowery Boys" series. Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney...
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1948
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Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
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1948
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This earnest drama warns teenagers of the dangers of having premarital sex by telling the story of a teenage girl who goes...
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1948
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Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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1946
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Having functioned as Alvin J. Neitz's assistant director in the first two "Trail Blazers" Westerns, Monogram...
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1943
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The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a plucky young woman launches a successful campaign and becomes mayor of her tiny hometown. Now she...
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1943
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In this western a pugnacious cowboy tries to prevent a city-slicker from conning the local ranchers and the utility company....
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1943
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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1940
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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1940
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The Our Gang kids unintentionally wreak havoc at the gala Hollywood premiere of the adventure epic Gun Boats. Chased away by...
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1940
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1939
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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On the Great White Trail was the second B-picture inspired by Laurie York Erskine's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" books....
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1938
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A woman is brutally strangled and her body stuffed into a suitcase in this otherwise rather frivolous low-budget thriller....
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1938
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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1937
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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A veterinarian and his wife leave their small burg and move to the Big Apple after he inherits a million dollars. His social...
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1937
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1936
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Love on a Bet is a lightweight programmer from the "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" school of comedy. Gene Raymond stars as...
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1936
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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Set up essentially to produce cheap westerns, low-budget Puritan Pictures occasionally ground out a contemporary actioner...
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Sparky
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1935
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1935
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Having refused for years to ride on his famous father's coattails, Creighton Chaney was convinced by Poverty Row...
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1935
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Another of cowboy hero Bill Cody's low-grade horse operas for Spectrum Pictures, Cyclone Ranger casts the white-Stetsoned...
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Duke
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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1934
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Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able to escape the onus of his...
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1934
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Tom Mix goes undercover as a prison inmate in this Western from Universal. The reason for Tom's masquerade is a bank robbery...
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1933
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Mr. Lemon of Orange was advertised as comedian El Brendel's first starring feature, even though he'd previously dominated the...
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1931
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In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold...
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Bronco Dawson
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1931
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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1930
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Based loosely on Waite Hoyt and Mickey Cochrane, major league baseball players moonlighting as vaudeville entertainers, this...
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1930
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Based upon an ambitious but unsuccessful stage operetta by Oscar Hammerstein and Vincent Youmans, Song of the West is set in...
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1930
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The overall comic tone of Dames Ahoy is implicit in its title. Chubby Otis Harlan is cast as veteran seaman Bill Jones, who...
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Mac Dougal
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1930
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In this classy crime drama, the well-spoken, leader of a sophisticated gang of gangsters use their high social status to...
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Liberty Red
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1930
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In this romance, a husband, believing that his wife had sexual relations before they were married, ends up leaving, joining...
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1929
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The 1929 comedy Twin Beds was the second of three versions of the 1914 stage farce by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field. The...
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1929
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In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the...
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1929
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Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel...
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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1929
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A rather muddled prize-fighting melodrama from low-budget company Gotham Productions, United States Smith featured former...
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Sergeant
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1928
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Sergeant Butts
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1928
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A seriously injured boxer seemingly falls for his pretty nurse, who begins arranging their wedding. In this drama, the...
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Terry Malone
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1928
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1928
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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Bill O'Brien
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1928
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Morris, The Callahans and the Murphys was the first of several MGM films costarring veteran...
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1927
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Steve Wilson
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1927
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1927
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The scene is Shanghai, where virginal missionary Pauline Garon finds herself the object of lust of the local Chinese crime...
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1927
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While merely a program picture, this drama features an excellent cast and an entertaining story. Before the Great War, Max...
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Nick
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1927
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The titular "man bait" is svelte shopgirl Madge Dreyer (Marie Prevost), who can't convince her customers and male co-workers...
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1926
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1926
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Long believed lost, the silent thriller-chiller The Bat finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and proved well-worth the wait....
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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Corporal Madden
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1926
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Marking the 50th anniversary of General George Armstrong Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn, Universal re-created the...
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1926
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Real-life stunt pilot Al Wilson heads the cast of the aerial melodrama The Flying Mail. Hero Wilson gets into trouble early...
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1926
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Mary Roberts Rinehart's story When a Man Marries was made into a successful play, Tumble In, by Avery Hopwood. Biograph...
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1925
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1925
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This action-packed melodrama was adapted from the stage play by Elmer Vance, the man who did the adapting was future film...
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1925
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The second of four versions of Zane Grey's story of a dispirited ranch hand who joins a gang of outlaws, this silent western...
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1924
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Arthur Trevelyan (Gaston Glass) spends his life partying and one of his revels ends in a wedding ceremony. His father (Thomas...
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1924
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Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent, action melodrama based on Gerald Beaumont's Red Book Magazine serial. A tough...
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1924
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Owen Moore was a bit long in tooth when he played the brash young hero of East of Broadway. Peter Mullaney (Moore) has one...
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1924
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This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier)...
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Boxer
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1923
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While this isn't one of director John Ford's best early efforts, it does feature a thrilling storm and shipwreck. Gladys...
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Battling Brown
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1923
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Everybody at Mack Sennett's Keystone studios was expected to do a little bit of everything, which is why bassett-faced...
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1922
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Bumptuous Charles Ray is again a "victim of circumstance" (to quote the immortal Curly Howard) in Alias Julius Caesar. While...
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1922
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Although Charles Ray doesn't play one of his country boy roles in his first picture for United Artists, John Paul Bart could...
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1922
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This feature-length comedy-melodrama was not one of the best from Mack Sennett, or his talented director, F. Richard Jones....
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1922
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This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel...
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Jim Smith
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1921
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This hilarious slapstick comedy from Mack Sennett finds Sam Smith (Ben Turpin), the resident of a small town, accused of...
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1921
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1920
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