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poster How Jones Lost His Roll

How Jones Lost His Roll

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to dinner, and serves him a large meal with plenty of wine. A…

poster Bumping Into Broadway

Bumping Into Broadway

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…

poster Beauty's Worth

Beauty's Worth

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…

poster An Impossible Balancing Feat

An Impossible Balancing Feat

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

poster Crazy to Act

Crazy to Act

Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts,…

poster An Expensive Visit

An Expensive Visit

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 The Million Pound Note

The Million Pound Note

90mn - Comedy, Romance

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that w…

poster Betrayed by a Handprint

Betrayed by a Handprint

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number …

poster Doughnuts and Society

Doughnuts and Society

63mn - Comedy, Romance

Two lifelong friends and business partners in a doughnut shop see their friendship tested when one inherits a fortune and tries to crash high society, leaving the other behind and threatening their childr…

poster Dreamy Dud, He Resolves Not to Smoke

Dreamy Dud, He Resolves Not to Smoke

5mn - Comedy, Animation

After stealing a man's pipe and smoking his way to the moon, Dreamy Dud decides that smoking isn't for him.

poster Along Came Auntie

Along Came Auntie

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 Floorwalker

The Floorwalker

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.

poster Cohen’s Fire Sale

Cohen’s Fire Sale

13mn - Comedy, Crime

A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.

poster Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar

106mn - Comedy, Western

After a bank heist goes sideways and the lead robber ends up dead, three bandits engage in a treacherous game of cat and mouse to claim $200,000 in stolen loot. When ambitious young gunslinger Glenn disco…

poster Miss Grant Takes Richmond

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-o…

poster Behind Office Doors

Behind Office Doors

82mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.

poster That's My Wife

That's My Wife

Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pr…

poster Take Care of My Little Girl

Take Care of My Little Girl

A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.

poster Just Pals

Just Pals

50mn - Drama, Western

Bim (Buck Jones) seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill (George Stone) under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bil…

poster A Natural Born Gambler

A Natural Born Gambler

A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.

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