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poster The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
3mn - Comedy
A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.
poster Sailors, Beware!
Sailors, Beware!
20mn - Comedy
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
poster An Expensive Visit
An Expensive Visit
10mn - Comedy
At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jea…
poster Are Crooks Dishonest?
Are Crooks Dishonest?
13mn - Comedy
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
poster Game of Cards
Game of Cards
(2.8/5)
1mn - Comedy, History
Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.
poster Charade
Charade
(4/5)
113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance
When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…
poster The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic
The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic
(3.1/5)
6mn -
A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it.
poster Hook, Line and Sinker
Hook, Line and Sinker
(3.0/5)
75mn - Comedy, Romance
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly a…
poster Caught in a Cabaret
Caught in a Cabaret
23mn - Comedy
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she h…
poster Le cigare introuvable
Le cigare introuvable
1mn - Comedy
Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.
poster Dunces and Dangers
Dunces and Dangers
(3.2/5)
10mn - Comedy
Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and every…
poster La Parisienne
La Parisienne
(3.2/5)
86mn - Comedy
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
poster Rogues' Tricks
Rogues' Tricks
4mn - Comedy, Action
Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a trick film or something that he's known for, the directo…
poster The Little Match Seller
The Little Match Seller
3mn - Drama
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are vis…
poster The Danger Game
The Danger Game
(3.4/5)
50mn - Comedy
Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her story is completely implausible. To prove him wrong, Clytie…
poster The Ghost Galleon
The Ghost Galleon
91mn - Horror
After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their ow…
poster The Navigator
The Navigator
(3.8/5)
59mn - Comedy, Action, Romance
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their…
poster Along Came Auntie
Along Came Auntie
18mn - Comedy
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
poster The Naked Street
The Naked Street
(3.3/5)
84mn - Thriller, Drama
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of priso…
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