The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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Twenty years after the Armistice, doughboy Stan Laurel continues guarding a trench in France--simply because no one told him...
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Associate Producer
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1938
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Associate Producer
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1940
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Composer (Music Score), Producer
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1930
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By 1921, Harold Lloyd was gradually easing into full-length comedies. This was his second three-reel film; by the end of the...
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Director
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1921
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Director
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1933
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Director
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1932
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Director
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1919
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Director
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1943
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Director
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1919
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Harold Lloyd plays a wealthy, spoiled New York City boy in this two-reeler. His parents, fed up with his nightclubbing ways,...
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Director
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1920
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This two-reel Harold Lloyd short introduced Mildred Davis as his new co-star -- she took Bebe Daniels' place; Daniels, an...
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Director
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1919
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Director
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1920
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Harold Lloyd runs afoul of some bootleg hootch in this two-reel comedy. When his friend (Roy Brooks) shows him a little...
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Director
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1920
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Director
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1918
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Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis play a young married couple (two years later, they became a real-life married couple). So far,...
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Director
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1921
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In their first of 16 comedy shorts for Hal Roach, blonde Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts go on a frenetic double date...
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Director
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1931
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At the height of his activity as Hollywood's foremost producer of 2-reel comedies, Hal Roach developed the urge to direct a...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1930
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This Harold Lloyd three-reeler is one of his best short subjects, in good part because of the interplay between him and child...
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Director
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1921
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Director
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1920
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1923
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Director
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1923
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In the early '20s, comics would pump out one and two-reel films based on the slightest of plots but rich in gags. Such was...
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Director
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1923
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Studio head Hal Roach directed this comedy himself. Nelse Tyler (Jack Gavin) rules over the town of Tyler with the help of...
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Director
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1924
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Director, Producer
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1915
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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Director, Producer
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1939
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Director, Producer
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1918
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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Director, Producer
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1933
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Stan Laurel's first one-reel film for Hal Roach (whose production company at the time was Rolin) never does answer the...
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Director, Producer
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1919
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The 43-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" Dudes are Pretty People was one of three films teaming Jimmy Rogers (son of Will) with...
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Director, Producer
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1942
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1915
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In order to inherit a mansion, a young girl (Mildred Davis) must live there for a year with her husband. She doesn't have a...
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Director, Producer
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1920
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In this comedy, a gangster's moll gets tired of the mob scene and returns to her mother's house. Her mom is a wealthy...
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Director, Producer
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1939
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Stan Laurel is surprisingly low key in this comic one-reeler, which he made for Hal Roach's company, Rolin. Generally, in his...
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Director, Producer
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1918
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Director, Producer
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1916
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Director, Producer
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1918
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In this classic two-reel comedy from the Hal Roach Studio, blonde Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts are depressed because...
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Director, Producer
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1932
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever...
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Director, Producer
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1940
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1919
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Director, Producer
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1941
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Director, Producer
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1915
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Director, Producer
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1917
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American mousetrap salesmen Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy journey to Switzerland, reasoning that where there's cheese, there's...
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Director, Producer
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1938
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Director, Producer
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1916
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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Director, Producer
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1940
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Although the title of Laurel and Hardy's very first sound film is a joke on the phrase, "Unaccustomed as we are to public...
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Director, Producer
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1929
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In an ersatz Stone Age, the King orders all single males to marry or be banished -- or worse. A husky caveman known as the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1927
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No relation to the 1953 musical film of the same title, About Face is a 43 minute Hal Roach "Streamliner." Sgt. Doubleday...
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Producer
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1942
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Producer
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1917
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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Producer
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1941
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The final Thelma Todd-Patsy Kelly two-reel comedy All-American Toothache was a rather obvious farce in which Thelma...
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Producer
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1936
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The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an...
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Producer
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1936
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A goat escapes from a pet shop, and the owner reports the missing goat to the police. Laurel & Hardy have spent their last...
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Producer
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1929
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Little Spanky McFarland's appointment as treasurer of the Ancient and Honery Order of Woodchucks occurs on the same day as...
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Producer
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1935
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The 1930 Laurel & Hardy 3-reeler Another Fine Mess is a remake of the team's 1927 effort Duck Soup--which, in turn, was based...
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Producer
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1930
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have just returned from a whaling trek. They check into a run-down hotel, the Mariner's Rest,...
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Producer
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1932
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Spanky tries to escape his "command performance" at the Spring Street School's annual Arbor Day show, but local truant...
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Producer
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1936
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Producer
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1918
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There are a huge number of great gags in this Harold Lloyd single-reeler. Lloyd was two-and-a-half years away from making...
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1919
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Hoping to earn enough money to buy baseball equipment, the Our Gang kids elect to have all their teeth pulled out. Their...
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Producer
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1938
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Producer
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1934
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Producer
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1919
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This Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent involves the boys' attempts to repossess a radio from Collis P. Kennedy (Edgar Kennedy...
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Producer
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1929
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The "Our Gang" two-reeler "Bargain Day" gets off to a lively start as the kids help their pal Norman "Chubby" Chaney purchase...
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Producer
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1931
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Directed by Hal Roach Studio comic Charlie Chase, this two-reeler is by many considered the best of the 16 Thelma Todd-ZaSu...
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Producer
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1933
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Originally released on April 7, 1928, "Barnum & Ringling, Inc." was the first "Our Gang" silent comedy to be released with a...
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1917
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While this isn't one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best shorts, its premise is very similar to one of their finest...
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1923
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Although he had just recently returned to the United States and formed his own studio, comedian Max Linder's career was...
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Producer
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1921
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Upon learning that Darla Hood's father (Jack Pepper) owns a circus, Our Gang members Spanky McFarland and Carl "Alfalfa"...
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Producer
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1938
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Popular child actor (and later radio and TV stalwart) Leon Janney made his one and only "Our Gang" appearance in "Bear...
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Producer
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1930
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1931
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Originally released on September 9, 1933, "Bedtime Worries" was the first of two "Our Gang" comedies in which the vaudeville...
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Producer
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1933
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1919
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Much against his will, Spanky McFarland had been entered in a kiddie talent contest by his ambitious mother (Kitty Kelly)....
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Producer
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1935
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Business is not good for street musicians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Perhaps it's because they're playing in front of a...
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Producer
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1930
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Laurel and Hardy's second two-reel talkie is made up of a few very simple scenes -- Oliver Hardy goes to meet his partner...
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Producer
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1929
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Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their...
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Producer
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1929
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An angry divorce is the curious source of humor in the offbeat "Our Gang" comedy "Big Ears." Though little Bobby "Wheezer"...
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1924
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1917
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A superb combination of belly laughs and pathos, the "Our Gang" comedy "Birthday Blues" was originally released on November...
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Producer
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1932
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Producer
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1917
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In this especially amusing Laurel and Hardy short, the boys are planning a night on the town. Standing in their way is Mrs....
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Producer
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1930
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Producer
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1936
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Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in...
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Producer
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1935
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Producer Hal Roach had intended to terminate his "Our Gang" short-subject series at the end of the 1935-36 season, but was...
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Producer
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1936
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Accustomed to being the center of attention in his family, little Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins is upset when the spotlight is...
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Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1941
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Hal Roach Studios' Brooklyn Orchid was one of three "streamliners" (films running between 40-50 minutes) starring...
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Producer
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1942
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This is one of Laurel and Hardy's most entertaining sound shorts, and perhaps its beauty is in its utter comic simplicity --...
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Producer
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1933
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Producer
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1917
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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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Producer
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1927
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Last week, fickle Darla Hood declared that she would not go out with neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond) until he started...
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Producer
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1938
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Again concocting an elaborate hooky-playing scheme, Our Gang kid Spanky McFarland places a block of ice on the chest of his...
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Producer
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1938
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One of the livelier late-silent entries in the "Our Gang" series, Cat, Dog & Co. begins with the kids thoughtlessly abusing...
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Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1925
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Not only has Oliver Hardy established a successful business -- in fertilizer -- he has also decided to run for mayor. General...
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Producer
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1931
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have been working for a circus as two halves of an ersatz horse. When the circus closes, in lieu...
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Producer
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1932
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1932
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Producer
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1923
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Producer
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1919
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Poor little rich girl Jean Darling invites the scruffy "Our Gang" kids to her lavish home for an impromptu party. With her...
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1942
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Although this Laurel and Hardy short is quite funny, it's often neglected. The boys, playing chimney sweeps, don't appear...
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Producer
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1934
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Producer
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1936
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Easily one of the most bizarre and surrealistic of all the "Our Gang" silent films, Dog Heaven begins as the beloved Pete the...
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Producer
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1927
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Another expert blend of genuine sentiment, moving pathos and belly laughs, the "Our Gang" comedy "Dogs is Dogs" was orginally...
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1926
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Producer
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1919
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A hotel is gearing up to welcome its prestigious new guest, a European Prince (Captain John Peters). But before he appears,...
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Producer
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1929
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A pair of adle-pated vagrants on the run from the police take refuge in a posh mansion, assuming the identities of its...
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Producer
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1927
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Producer
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1919
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Laurel and Hardy are poor and unemployed until a letter arrives informing Hardy that he has inherited a fortune. Hardy moves...
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Producer
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1928
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In this "lost" Our Gang two-reeler, the kids tried their hand at inventing, with the expected hilarious results. One of the...
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Producer
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1928
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The Our Gang kids hold an election, with Joe Cobb running against Jay R. Smith, and vice versa (the boys' campaign slogans...
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Producer
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1929
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Though currently unavailable for viewing, the Hal Roach/MGM "Our Gang" silent comedy "Fair and Muddy" would seem to be a...
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Producer
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1928
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This silent "Our Gang" comedy starts out as a vehicle for Allen "Farina" Hoskins, here cast as a youthful hobo, riding the...
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Producer
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1929
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In this followup to the earlier one-reeler Our Gang: Night 'N' Gales, comedian Johnny Arthur reprises his role as Darla...
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Producer
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1938
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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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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1918
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Hopelessly in love with little Mary Ann Jackson, seven-year-old Jackie Cooper would like to claim her as a "wife," but...
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Producer
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1930
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Four of the "Our Gang" kids fabricate elaborate excuses to get out of school so they can go fishing. Unfortunately, the boys...
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Producer
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1933
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Producer
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1916
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A real four-hankie picture, "Fly My Kite" is one of "Our Gang"'s most poignant episodes, though it also manages to be...
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Producer
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1931
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The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he...
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Producer
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1942
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Producer
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1918
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When neighborhood bully Leonard Kibrick wrecks little Marianne Edwards' favorite doll, the "Our Gang" kids promise to...
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Producer
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1934
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A partial remake of the 1924 Our Gang: Cradle Robbers, "Forgotten Babies" finds the Gang members trying to escape their...
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Producer
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1933
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Producer
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1926
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Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Our Gang's resident crooner, has been preparing for weeks to perform in a radio talent contest. With...
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Producer
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1937
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To further her husband's political career, wealthy Mrs. Clark (Lillian Elliot) throws a lavish party in her home for the poor...
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Producer
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1932
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Mr. and Mrs. Culpepper (Tiny Sanford and Anita Garvin, respectively) are a nouveau-riche couple who are throwing a fancy...
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1918
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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Producer
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1936
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After appearing as a peripheral player in several earlier "Our Gang" shorts, Tommy Bond made a spectacular return to the...
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Producer
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1937
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This is an especially violent -- but very funny -- Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. It opens in a courthouse where the vicious...
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Producer
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1934
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1920
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John Aasen, the seven-foot-plus "giant" who previously costarred with Harold Lloyd in the 1923 comedy classic Why Worry,...
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Producer
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1928
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are perhaps unique amongst comedians of the 1920s and 1930s, and their silent and sound films...
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Producer
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1928
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can't even tell whose hat is whose, so it's no surprise when they lose their jobs as...
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Producer
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1927
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1918
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It is Valentine's Day, and Our Gang members Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene...
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Producer
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1937
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No longer available for viewing, Heebee Jeebies was the third of Hal Roach's silent Our Gang films to be distributed by MGM....
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Producer
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1927
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Veteran character actress Margaret Mann makes the first of two memorable Our Gang appearances in Helping Grandma. The owner...
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Producer
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1931
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Most Laurel and Hardy aficionados consider this film among the comic duo's very best two-reelers, and it is especially rich...
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Producer
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1931
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Produced by Hal Roach, this series of ten, two-reel melodramas featured "flapper" star Edna Murphy as ten different examples...
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Producer
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1923
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Producer
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1918
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Opening his own detective agency, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer dons a deerstalker cap and rechristens himself "X-10, Sooper...
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Producer
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1938
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When wealthy young Jerry Tucker moves into town, the Our Gang kids line up to greet him. Alas, Jerry is a snobbish sort,...
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Producer
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1934
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Producer
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1918
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Outside of a cutting continuity and a handful of contemporary reviews, little is known about the plotline of the long-lost...
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Producer
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1929
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Capriciously defying his loving but overprotective mother, wealthy young Wally Albright orders family chauffeur Barclay (Don...
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Producer
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1934
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Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1919
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Producer
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1919
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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Producer
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1936
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1918
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In this classic "Our Gang" comedy, Dickie Moore, Spanky McFarland and Dorothy DeBorba play siblings who, through a...
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Producer
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1933
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This one-reel comedy that Stan Laurel made for Hal Roach was basically a remake of a film he did the year before for...
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Producer
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1923
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Producer Hal Roach was known for his comic shorts; however, his first foray into the world of features wasn't a comedy, but a...
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Producer
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1924
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Fascinated by the story of Aladdin's magic lamp, the Our Gang kids gather together every electric light fixture in the...
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Producer
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1932
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Producer
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1918
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Producer
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1931
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While on an outing to go fishing, Oliver Hardy is trying to get some sleep. He's disturbed by a newspaper that blows in,...
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Producer
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1930
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Lazy Days is built entirely around the fact that the Gang members in general and Allen "Farina" Hoskins in particular are too...
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Producer
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1929
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Producer
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1918
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This Laurel and Hardy short film has a thin plot but plenty of laughs. The two have escaped from prison, but the guards are...
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Producer
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1929
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Originally released on March 28, 1931, the "Our Gang" comedy "Little Daddy" is no longer available in the "Little Rascals" TV...
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Producer
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1931
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Though completed before the first "Our Gang" talkie Small Talk, the silent two-reeler Little Mother was released afterward,...
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Producer
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1929
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Although Spanky McFarland would like to play football with the rest of the "Our Gang" kids, he is stuck at home taking care...
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Producer
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1935
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Anxious to go fishing, Spanky McFarland skips out of Sunday school, despite the admonitions of his pal Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...
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Producer
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1935
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Producer
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1917
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Producer
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1917
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This Hal Roach two-reeler is not one of Charley Chase's best efforts. It's notable only because it's one of the approximately...
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1926
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1919
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1918
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The final entry in "Our Gang" 's unofficial "Miss Crabtree trilogy", "Love Business" more or less picks up where "School's...
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1931
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1927
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Confronted by a blackmailing former girlfriend (Mae Busch), recently wed businessman Titus Tillsbury (James Finlayson) is...
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1927
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1917
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1936
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Acting as if the previous "Our Gang" one-reeler Hearts are Thumps never happened, the Gang's male members, headed by Spanky...
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1937
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This entry was part of MGM's short-lived "The Boy Friends" series, which was developed by director George Stevens. In this...
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1931
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The first in a brace of "Our Gang" fantasy outings, "Mama's Little Pirate" begins when the mother of Spanky McFarland refuses...
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1934
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Although this Stan Laurel one-reeler is based on a very simple premise, it's quite funny. Adding to the mirth is the presence...
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1923
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Stan Laurel (an Englishman by birth) makes an improbable Asian in this two-reel Joe Rock comedy. As the new baby in the...
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1924
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1919
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It is Oliver Hardy's triumphant wedding day -- he is marrying the boss's daughter and thus becoming general manager for the...
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1933
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In this early Laurel and Hardy sound short, Stan and Ollie are a pair of sailors on leave. They meet two girls at a park...
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1929
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1938
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are policemen on night duty. As they sit in their car having a snack, they get a call from...
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1933
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When open auditions are announced for a radio variety program, the local station is besieged by aggressively overcoached...
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1934
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Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
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1936
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The success of this "Our Gang" comedy is due in great part to the performances of two adult comedians, Edgar Kennedy and...
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1929
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1917
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This time around, the Our Gang Kids are residents (or rather, inmates) of the Bleak Hill Boarding School, where the crabby...
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1933
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This most famous of Laurel and Hardy shorts won an Oscar for "Best Comedy Short Subject." Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play...
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1932
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1919
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1921
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1919
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Comedian Johnny Arthur, who played Spanky McFarland's absent-minded father in the 1935 "Our Gang" comedy Anniversary Trouble,...
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1937
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1930
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1937
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Despite its title, this "Our Gang" comedy was a silent film, albeit one outfitted with a synchronized music and sound-effects...
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1929
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Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is...
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1920
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1918
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1919
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The "Our Gang" kids befriend elderly Chief Cummings, a former fire chief who runs a ramshackle taxi service with the help of...
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1928
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1927
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1919
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In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson...
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1918
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Charley Chase suffers through the vacation from hell in this hilarious two-reeler. He drives to California with his wife...
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1936
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are victims of the depression in this tworeeler. They do have an old car, a tent and some...
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1931
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During his early days working for the Hal Roach studios, the plots to Stan Laurel's comedies were as interchangeable as their...
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1923
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The first of "Our Gang"'s musical revues, this one gets under way as master of ceremonies Spanky McFarland entices the local...
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1935
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Oliver Hardy finds that getting married is more difficult than he had planned in this two-reeler. It starts off with partner...
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1931
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1917
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1918
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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1931
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1919
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1929
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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1937
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1923
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Even allowing for the fact that it's only a one-reeler, the "Our Gang" comedy "The Pigskin Palooka" goes by so rapidly that...
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1937
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Hoping to win a 50-dollar prize, the Our Gang kids enter a radio talent contest. Despite the scene-stealing efforts of...
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1936
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1917
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1918
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1919
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Our Gang member Joe Cobb has to do some quick thinking when his playful but undeniably destructive pet dog Pansy is slated to...
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1928
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The Our Gang kids prepare to enter their scraggily pets in a high-society dog show, where their pal Allen "Farina" Hoskins is...
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1930
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1927
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The second "Our Gang" talkie, Railroadin' was filmed entirely out-of-doors, on location in and around the railroad yards...
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1929
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1917
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Left in charge of his younger siblings Wheezer and Jean, "Our Gang" kid Jay R. Smith is stuck in the house due to a...
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1928
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1919
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June Marlowe made her final "Our Gang" appearance as Miss Crabtree in "Readin' and Writin'." Despite his mother's admonitions...
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1932
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A followup to the musical-revue short Our Gang Follies of 1936, the one-reel Reunion in Rhythm was apparently filmed under...
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1937
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Upset at being forced to do the household chores all weekend long, Our Gang-ers Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer,...
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1937
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1923
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1925
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Our Gang members Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer and Spanky McFarland form the Sekret Revengers Club, dedicated to protecting such...
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1937
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Although this is one of the better early films from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, they have obviously not yet teamed up and...
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1927
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1919
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1940
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The last of the silent "Our Gang" comedies, Saturday's Lesson was also one of the best in the entire series. It is Saturday,...
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1929
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One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM "Our Gang" silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built...
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1928
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In this sequel to the 1930 "Our Gang" comedy "Teacher's Pet," the Gang members eagerly await each school day, so that they...
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1930
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1932
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Veteran character actress Zeffie Tilbury steals the show in this immensely satisfying "Our Gang" comedy. On the occasion of...
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1936
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Laurel and Hardy are stripe-suited convicts in a cramped penitentiary cell. Seemingly model prisoners, they actually spend...
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1927
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1918
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1922
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The Our Gang kids spend so much time listening to the tall tales spun by a salty sea captain (Billy Gilbert) that they...
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1931
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Up until this two-reeler, Laurel and Hardy's films for Hal Roach were released under the "All-Star Comedy" label; Should...
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1928
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Like the previous "Mama's Little Pirate," "Shrimps for a Day" was a rare "Our Gang" foray into pure fantasy. In this one, the...
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1934
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1919
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1918
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A love-starved wife (Priscilla Dean) hires a dim-witted delivery man (Stan Laurel) to make love to her and revive the waning...
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1926
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The first all-talking "Our Gang" comedy, Small Talk was also one of the few series entries to run three reels rather than the...
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1929
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1919
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Harold Lloyd plays an explorer in this comic short. Bebe Daniels is a shipwreck victim who is snatched up by a group of...
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1918
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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1933
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Another silent "Our Gang" comedy built around crazy inventions, The Spanking Age cast kiddie troupers Mary Ann Jackson and...
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1928
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The rest of the "Our Gang" kids rather cruelly taunt their black pal Allen "Farina" Hoskins, who is deathly afraid of ghosts....
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1928
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Finding out that the circus will be coming to town for one day only, "Our Gang" members Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa"...
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1936
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1919
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Hoping to get on the good side of the new truant officer (Dick Elliot), the Our Gang kids go out of their way to impress the...
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1935
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1920
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1922
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1919
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1918
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1918
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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1941
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On the last day of school, the Our Gang kids learn that their beloved teacher Miss Jones (Arletta Duncan) is going to be...
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1935
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An indisputable classic, the "Our Gang" comedy "Teacher's Pet" is introduced by a brace of pretty twin girls (Beverly and...
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1930
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1918
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1929
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In spite of a sudden end which makes this Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy two-reeler seem incomplete, there are quite a few...
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1932
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1928
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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1929
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Seven-year-old heartbreaker Darla Hood throws her steady beau Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer over in favor of wealthy Waldo (Darwood...
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1938
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1918
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Stan and Ollie play proprietors of an electric store, anxious to make friends with neighboring grocer Charlie Hall....
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1935
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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1941
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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1938
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Originally released on June 21, 1930, the "Our Gang" comedy "A Tough Winter" was designed as a "pilot" film for a proposed...
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1930
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The whole point of this Laurel and Hardy two-reeler was to dress up the comic duo as women and have them play each other's...
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1933
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1918
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This is arguably Laurel and Hardy's best two-reel silent (the other contender for first place is Big Business). The boys play...
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1928
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When little Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee bring some firecrackers to school, older kids Carl "Alfalfa"...
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1936
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1918
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In 1923, Stan Laurel signed a five-year contract with producer Hal Roach (in reality he would be there for only a year before...
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1923
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In the mid-'20s Hal Roach gave James Finlayson his own starring series of one-reel comedies. They weren't very successful,...
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1925
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On the day that he is scheduled to perform a violin solo at a swank bridge luncheon held by his social-climbing mother, rich...
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1934
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Laurel and Hardy want to slip out of the house and play poker. Their wives want them to stay home, so they make up a story...
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1928
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1917
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Officially an "Our Gang" comedy, "When the Wind Blows" is really a vehicle for adult comic Edgar Kennedy, here playing his...
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1930
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1930
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This one-reel comedy was one of Stan Laurel's early films for the Hal Roach studios (it would be nearly four years before...
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1923
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1918
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Harold Lloyd plays a millionaire who suffers from imaginary illness in this memorable comedy. With the help of a beautiful...
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1923
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A truly offbeat "Our Gang" comedy, Wiggle Your Ears contains subtext that might make Sigmund Freud proud. Little Mary Ann...
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1929
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1927
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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The first of Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies to be released through MGM, Yale vs. Harvard unfortunately no longer seems to...
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1927
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Yanks Ahoy was the last of a series of Hal Roach "streamliners" teaming William Tracy as Sgt. Doubleday, he of the...
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1943
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1919
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This classic Laurel and Hardy comedy is famous for the pants-ripping scene at the end, but the other parts of it are just as...
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1928
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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1939
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Saddled with an overprotective mother, little Mickey Daniels is prohibited from playing with the rest of the Our Gang kids....
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1925
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Lonely rich boy Joe Cobb wants a baby brother more than anything, but his parents are too busy and self-involved to discuss...
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1927
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Mr. and Mrs. Weedle (William Gillespie and Charlotte Mineau) are in a jam: For years, they've been receiving substantial...
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1926
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The Our Gang kids volunteer to assist a ragtag vaudeville troupe in a performance of their traveling show, but despite their...
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1923
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When the Our Gang kids make the acquaintance of Billy Lord, a wealthy youngster who owns his own home-movie camera, the...
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1925
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Not to be confused with the 1929 Laurel and Hardy classic of the same name, the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Big Business...
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1924
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Accidentally hitching a ride in an empty boxcar, the Our Gang kids end up in New York City. Hoping to pay a visit to their...
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1925
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Hoping to build their own amusement park, the Our Gang kids are disheartened to discover that their favorite vacant lot has...
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1925
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Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted...
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1927
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The silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy The Buccaneers was originally released on March 9, 1924. As the film's title suggests,...
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1924
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Once again, the Our Gang kids embark upon a treasure hunt, this time in search of Captain Kidd's buried gold. Boarding their...
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1926
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After attending a magic show, the Our Gang members decide to indulge in a little prestidigitation of their own. One of the...
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1927
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Originally released on May 7, 1932, the "Our Gang" comedy "Choo-Choo!" was a loose remake of the 1923 two-reeler A Pleasant...
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1932
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Determined to get out of school to attend the circus, the Our Gang kids fake an epidemic by splotching their faces with...
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1925
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The silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Commencement Day made its first theatrical appearance on May 4, 1924. It's the last day...
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1924
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Stuck with babysitting their younger siblings, the Our Gang kids decide to profit from their obligations by entering the...
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1924
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The Our Gang kids set up a concession stand across the street from the local racetrack. Befriending Mary Kornman, the...
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1923
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Everyone who ever worked with Rex, King of Wild Horses has testified that the magnificent-looking animal was one of the...
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1926
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Originally released on July 1, 1923, the silent, two-reel Dogs of War may well have been the most schizophrenic entry in the...
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1923
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The Our Gang kids are sorely confused by the new kid in town, who transforms from a sissy to a tough guy and back again...
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1924
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The plot of the Our Gang silent comedy Fast Company is set in motion when the kids embark upon a swimming expedition. Along...
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1924
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While the Our Gang kids are beating the summer heat with their own elaborate version of a "slip-n-slide," a fire alarm rings,...
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1926
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Confined to a neck brace, poor little rich boy Dickie Moore would like to play with the neighborhood kids, but his...
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1932
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It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly...
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1927
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Originally released on January 10, 1926, Good Cheer was Our Gang's Yuletide present to the series' legions of fans. 'Tis the...
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1926
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Adopted by his wealthy Aunt Kate, freckle-faced Mickey Daniels at first enjoys his newly luxurious surroundings, but before...
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1924
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Originally released on August 27, 1932, Hook and Ladder was a remake of the 1926 "Our Gang" comedy The Fourth Alarm, with...
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1932
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This silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy finds the kids enjoying target practice with a variety of weapons, from an air rifle to...
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1924
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The beloved humorist Will Rogers, whose own series of Hal Roach two-reelers was produced concurrently with the studio's Our...
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1924
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One of the lesser silent Our Gang two-reelers, July Days is for the most part a random collection of unrelated gags detailing...
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1923
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They don't come any stranger than the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Lodge Night. After a brief sequence involving an...
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1923
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Romance enters the lives of the Our Gang kids, prompting them to go to their surrogate "grandma" for advice. After Joe Cobb,...
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1925
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A hydrophobia epidemic forces the town's authorities to round up all unlicensed dogs. Falling into that category is the pooch...
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1927
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Ignored by her parents and browbeaten by her governess (May Beatty), poor little rich girl Mary Kornman finds comfort only in...
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1925
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Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins decides to run away from home on the same day that an oversized, trained chimpanzee...
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1926
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Imagining himself to be a master detective, Our Gang member Mickey Daniels -- also known as "Sherlock Hawkshaw" -- tries to...
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1924
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When Our Gang member Mickey Daniels goes to the hospital to have his tonsils removed, the rest of the kids decide to pay him...
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1923
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Living in a crowded tenement neighborhood, the Our Gang kids habitually run afoul of the nasty, ill-tempered cop on the...
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1925
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Originally released on September 11, 1927, the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Olympic Games was undoubtedly inspired by the...
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1927
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Once again, the Our Gang kids go into the taxi business, this time with an old, abandoned, motorless auto and an obliging...
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1925
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Cheerful vagrant Mathew "Stymie" Beard tries to get back in the good graces of the Gang after stealing their pies. Stymie's...
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1932
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Originally released on April 6, 1924, the silent, two-reel "Seein' Things" may not be the most bizarre episode of the Our...
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1924
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If not the funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Seeing the World is certainly one of the most famous. James Finlayson is...
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1927
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A seance held by phony spiritualist Professor Fleece (George K. French) is inadvertently disrupted by the Our Gang kids....
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1926
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This silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy was first released on May 3, 1925. Shootin' Injuns finds the Our Gang kids...
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1925
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When the hard-working, widowed mother of Our Gang member Allan "Farina" Hoskins falls ill, things look bad for her family:...
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1928
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Earning instant stardom via his appearance in the 1932 "Our Gang" comedy "Free Eats," 3-year-old George "Spanky" McFarland...
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1932
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At the behest of shady professional fundraiser Prince Delmar El Faro (William Gillespie), small-town author Fawn Ochletree...
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1923
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The Our Gang comedies were never more enjoyable than when they fulfilled the fantasies of the kids in the audience. Case in...
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1924
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Joining their families on a rural picnic, the Our Gang kids indulge in their usual horseplay. Adding to the comic chaos is...
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1923
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The Our Gang kids are held in thrall by neighborhood bully Toughy (Johnny Downs), who not only extorts money from the kids,...
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1926
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Gang member Joe Cobb celebrates his tenth birthday by baking his own cake since his widowed mother can't afford to buy one....
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1927
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Easily one of the fastest and funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Thundering Fleas is set in motion with a sidewalk...
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1926
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Originally released on January 13, 1924, the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Tire Trouble is the film in which the gang...
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1924
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Charlie Oelze, the Hal Roach Studio's special effects and "gadget" maestro, was given co-director credit on the silent,...
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1927
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According to the opening title of this silent Our Gang comedy, "Uncle Tom's Cabin had been translated and played in forty-two...
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1926
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While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of...
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1926
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Producer Hal Roach often claimed that Your Own Back Yard was his favorite of all the Our Gang silent comedies produced by his...
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1925
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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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The Our Gang kids stage their own version of a county fair, with the help of two trained horses that have been innocently...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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1925
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As usual, diminutive Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins is faced with an adult-sized dilemma. This time, Farina is a...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1929
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This time out, the Our Gang kids are reluctant boarders at Mother Malone's School, an operation run by an overbearing old...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play both the fathers and their unruly children in this two-reel comedy. The really funny thing...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1930
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The first of several Our Gang comedies built around the manly art of self-defense, The Champeen finds Gang member "Sunshine...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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The title character in this silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy is lovable Mr. Tuttle, played by Richard Daniels, the father of...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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Because it was sandwiched between the exceptional comedies Grandma's Boy and Safety Last, Doctor Jack is one of Harold...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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The Our Gang kids argue amongst themselves over which of their dogs is the cleverest and best trained. This brouhaha is...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1925
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The Our Gang kids form a volunteer fire brigade, with little Jackie Condon appointed Chief because he happens to own a...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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Its title notwithstanding, the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Giants vs. Yanks devotes only a few minutes of its running...
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1923
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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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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Producer, Screenwriter
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1928
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The silent era's foremost comedienne, Mabel Normand, plays a taxi dancer in this 2-reel farce produced by Hal Roach. In order...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1926
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Though not the first Our Gang comedy to be filmed, the silent, two-reel One Terrible Day was the first to be released, on...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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The first Our Gang comedy to be produced -- and the film for which the entire series was named -- this silent, two-reel...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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Not unexpectedly, the benign title of this silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy is a misnomer. Escaping from the local cop on the...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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With the Our Gang kids involved, no street could ever possibly be quiet, despite the title of this silent two-reel comedy. In...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1923
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Although this comedy was hailed as Harold Lloyd's first feature, at four reels, it's really more of a glorified short. It was...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1921
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Originally released on December 3, 1922, Saturday Morning was a typically amusing, if disjointed early entry of the Our Gang...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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Although Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both appear in this two-reel short, it's not a Laurel and Hardy film in the true sense...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1927
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This time around, the Our Gang kids are anxious to become detectives, forming a secret society called the J.J.J.'s (the...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1922
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Hal Roach wrote this story, which concerns a club of wealthy, grumpy old men who were players for the Fighting Orioles during...
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Screen Story
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1924
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