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poster Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
10mn - Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges …
poster What Drink Did
What Drink Did
12mn - Drama
A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for …
poster The Cowboy Millionaire
The Cowboy Millionaire
21mn - Western
Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bro…
poster Patterns
Patterns
(3.9/5)
83mn - Drama
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…
poster Perfect Profile
Perfect Profile
0mn -
Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…
poster The Pest
The Pest
20mn - Comedy
Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates. When an elderly gentleman approaches the two men he us…
poster Early to Bed
Early to Bed
20mn - Comedy
Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
poster The Fatal Hour
The Fatal Hour
(2.8/5)
68mn - Mystery, Thriller
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. …
poster Mr. Wong, Detective
Mr. Wong, Detective
(3/5)
70mn - Crime, Thriller, Mystery
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
poster Gas and Air
Gas and Air
11mn - Comedy
Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being dropped off, he puts his sign on the doorframe and wanders of…
poster It's a Gift
It's a Gift
12mn - Comedy
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives i…
poster For His Son
For His Son
15mn - Drama
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a suc…
poster The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
(3.3/5)
60mn - Drama
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confi…
poster Wandering Willies
Wandering Willies
19mn - Comedy
Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impers…
poster Two-Gun Gussie
Two-Gun Gussie
10mn - Comedy, Western
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the loca…
poster Seven Keys to Baldpate
Seven Keys to Baldpate
(3/5)
65mn - Thriller, Mystery
A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so …
poster Another Job for the Undertaker
Another Job for the Undertaker
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…
poster The Portrait of Captain Grogg
The Portrait of Captain Grogg
(3.3/5)
7mn - Animation
An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait
poster Drake of England
Drake of England
(3.4/5)
104mn - Action, Drama
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of En…
poster The Pawnshop
The Pawnshop
(3.5/5)
26mn - Comedy
A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives a…
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