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1950
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Monogram's Jiggs and Maggie in Society was the second entry in the series based on the George McManus comic strip "Bringing...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1948
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Bringing Up Father was the first of a series of Monogram comedies based on the popular comic strip by George McManus....
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Composer (Music Score), Director
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1946
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If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was...
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Director
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1945
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Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and...
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Director
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1945
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Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the...
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Director
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1944
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In this musical comedy of mistaken identity, a group of young of budding theatrical performers endeavor to put on their own...
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Director
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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Director
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1944
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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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Director
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1944
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The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era...
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Director
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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Director, Screen Story
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1944
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Dick Foran is back for another seven-reel melange of music and comedy in Universal's He's My Guy. Foran is cast as...
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Director
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1943
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Director
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1943
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There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a...
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Director
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1942
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In this zany comedy, based on an enduringly popular comic strip, the irascible mountain man and moonshiner finds himself...
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Director
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1942
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Director
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1942
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Billy DeBeck's classic comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" was brought to the screen in the pig-bladder Monogram...
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Director
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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Director
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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Director
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1942
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The comic effusions of Hugh "woo woo" Herbert helps to keep this otherwise forgettable farce afloat. It all begins when Bob...
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Director
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1941
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Director
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1941
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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Director
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1941
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Meet the Chump is an hour's worth of nonsense ideally suited to the talents of Hugh "Woo Woo" Herbert. The star plays Hugh...
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Director
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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Director
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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Director
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1940
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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Director
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1940
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In his starring film for Universal Pictures, W.C. Fields plays circus manager and all-around flim flam man Larson E....
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Director
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1939
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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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Director
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1938
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Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano...
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Director
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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Director
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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Director
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1938
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Director
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1937
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Director
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1937
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RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, based on the mystery stories by Stuart Palmer, ground to a half with 40 Naughty...
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Director
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1937
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Director
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1936
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In this comedy a persistent, pesky fountaineer takes to following two government agents in hopes of becoming one of them....
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Director
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1936
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Cowboy Millionaire is one of the last and best of George O'Brien's western vehicles at the Fox Studios. O'Brien is in charge...
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Director
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1935
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A frequently-filmed Harold Bell Wright novel was the source for this leisurely-paced George O'Brien western. His fortune...
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Director
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1935
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In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien...
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Director
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1934
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Produced at the old Mack Sennett studios by Sol Lesser's low-budget Principal Distributing Corp., this dog melodrama featured...
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Director
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1934
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Based on the barnstorming stage play by George W. Peck, Peck's Bad Boy stars Jackie Cooper in the title role. Cooper's...
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Director
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1934
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Director
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a woman inadvertently assists a con artist in his scheme to rob a store manager and ends up in...
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Director
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1933
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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Director
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1932
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Director
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1931
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The fact that The Naughty Flirt was advertised as having a 78-minute running time but was released at 57 minutes is...
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Director
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1931
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Though he'd been given top billing at other studios, Charles Ruggles attained star status at his home lot of Paramount for...
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Director
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1931
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In this musical, adapted from the earlier Musical Present Arms, a Marine private falls in love with a socialite and is...
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Director
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1930
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This thriller begins in 1889 as a lover kills another in a mansion. The film then jumps ahead to 1929 as an eccentric...
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Director
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1930
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The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married....
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Director
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1930
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"Sweet Mamma," a phrase popularized in the Barney Google comic strip, referred to a pretty girl, usually blonde, who attached...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1930
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Reginald Denny starred in this comedy, a part-talkie about a zealous real-estate dealer in love with his client's daughter....
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Director, Producer
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1929
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In the wake of Universal's musical smash Broadway, several enterprising film companies affixed the name of the legendary...
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Director
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1929
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This college musical chronicles the travails of a college football star who wants to quit playing. To stop him, the...
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Director
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1929
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Veteran comedian Charlie Murray plays a serious role in 1928's Head Man. Murray is cast as a senator named Watts, whose...
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Director
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Director
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1928
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The plot of this Essanay comedy hinges on a practical joke. The prankish friends of the hero decide to "set him up" with the...
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Director
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1928
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Director
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1927
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Director
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1927
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Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama,...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Director
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1927
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Although it ran a very scant four reels (it was actually 3,303 feet in length), comedy producer Mack Sennett marketed this...
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Director
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1927
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Director
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director, Screenwriter
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director
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1925
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1925
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Director
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1925
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A wealthy father (William McCall) goes to the pier to meet his son (Raymond McKee), who has been on a trip to Europe....
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Director
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1925
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Although Jackie Coogan is dressed up (or rather, down) for this comedy in much the same way he was for Charles Chaplin's The...
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Director
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1925
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The Rag Man proved to be a popular release, so Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer quickly put together this sequel. The studio's brand new...
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Director
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1925
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1925
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Director, Screenwriter
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1925
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1924
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1924
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Director, Screenwriter
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1924
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Director
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1924
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Viola Dana plays Ruth Ambrose, a citified interior decorator who expands her business to the country. The locals don't quite...
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Director
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1924
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Jackie Coogan stars as Mickey Hogan, the young orphan who is shipwrecked on his journey from San Francisco to Australia in...
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Director
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1924
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Edward Cline, famous for his work with the Keystone studios and Buster Keaton's silents, is the director of this...
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Director
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1924
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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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Director
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1923
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Although The Balloonatic was one of Buster Keaton's final two-reelers before he graduated to feature-length comedies, it has...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1923
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Director
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1923
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This picture was based on a George M. Cohan stage play. Lawyer Richard Clarke (Bert Lytell) can't seem to find success...
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Director
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1923
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Although Cops is one of the all-time great two-reelers, its creator, Buster Keaton, never thought much of it. He felt it was...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Comic filmmaker Buster Keaton always had a love of gadgetry, and that interest in all things mechanical is allowed full...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Buster Keaton collides head first with unholy matrimony in this hilarious two-reel comedy. A burly Irishwoman (Kate Price)...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Buster Keaton stars in this two-reel comedy as the captive of hostile Indians. His captors tie him to a stake and prepare him...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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This two-reeler features the famous theater sequence in which Buster Keaton plays every role, from the stage actors to the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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This two-reeler is one big chase film -- or, rather, it's two chases in one film. A drifter (Buster Keaton) is already on the...
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1921
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The first film that Buster Keaton made independently, High Sign portrays the filmmaker as a drifter in search of a job....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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The plucky little guy that comedian Buster Keaton portrayed throughout most of his two-reel silents is just about out of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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While this isn't one of Buster Keaton's best two-reelers, it has some undeniably classic moments. Keaton plays a young bank...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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In what is perhaps Buster Keaton's most fatalistic short subject, the comedian portrays a husband who has been diligently...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Buster Keaton stars in the short black-and-white silent comedy The Neighbors, also known as Backyard and Mailbox. The story...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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Buster Keaton's two-reel work in the early '20s was incredibly rich -- nearly every picture is funny and even the shorts that...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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In Buster Keaton's second two-reel comedy to be released, he is golfing (though not very well) with a group of socialites. He...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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One Week was the first Buster Keaton-directed film to be released to the public (The High Sign was made earlier but shelved...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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Director
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1918
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Comedy producer Mack Sennett enjoyed nothing better than to bite the hand which fed him by poking fun at the entire...
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Director
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1918
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Having recently severed his ties with Triangle Films, comedy producer Mack Sennett served up his first two-reeler for...
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Director
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1917
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Director
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1917
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Director
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1917
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Released June 24, 1917, A Dog Catcher's Love was one of the last of the Mack Sennett comedies to be released under the...
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Director
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1917
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Director
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1917
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1917
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1916
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1914
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